Eclectic Echinodermata
For those interested in echinoderm diversity. This ranges from eocrinoids, crinoids, rhombiferans, blastoids, coronoids, diploporitans, parablastoids, echinoids, and all of the strange beautiful forms that came in between!
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1 day, 22 hours agoJennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL appLarge reprints of Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Cystoidea’ and ‘Blastoidea’ plates (multiple specimens or images on a single large figure). For one of my qualifier exam questions I had to describe each species on the blastoid plate and discuss issues with past interpretations of shape and form! #fossil
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3 days agoAlexandre Toux posted a new specimen in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app
Alexandre Toux has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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3 days, 5 hours agoAlexandre Toux joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata
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5 days, 22 hours agoJennifer Bauer posted an image in the group Eclectic Echinodermata from the myFOSSIL app
Here is a graphic to help with echinoid photography and (some) morphology. This is an irregular echinoid, meaning they have bilateral symmetry rather than pentameral. For photography, one petal (ambulacrum) is pointing up- it should always be III (3). The anus (periproct) should be pointing down. Check it out @sadie-mills! #fossil
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I am all about this!
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3 months, 1 week agoCharlie Smith joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata
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3 months, 2 weeks agoJennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata
Hundreds of sea potatoes cover Penzance Beach
Click the link to learn about a mass stranding of heart urchins in the UK. These urchins are quite cool – they burrow in the sea floor and often look furry when they have all of their spines attached.
Here is a another article that shows images with their spines attached: ‘Funny’ sea objects identified as common sea urchins
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Looks a lot like my field area near Antofagasta, Chile with Pseudotoxaster wayensis (a spatangoid) covering the ground like gravel.
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@ryan-roney cool!!! Do you have any images from the field? Are spatangoid tests usually colorful (while alive or recently dead)? I never really thought about it but regular echinoids are so vibrant…
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Spatangoids are not as colorful as their epifaunal relatives, but there can be pink hues and color patterns.
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I’ll load some photos from the field a little later
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Awesome! Thanks, Ryan!
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4 months, 3 weeks agoMary Jane Hughes joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata -
6 months agoSamantha Ocon posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata
Hey! These are both really cool finds –
These crinoid fossils found in Western Australia are changing our conception of their decline –
This starfish is the first cretaceous starfish found in Cuba!
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2018-05-29/first-cretaceous-period-starfish-fossil-found-in-rodas-cuba
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6 months agoSamantha Ocon joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata
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1 year agoAlex Janevski joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata
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1 year, 2 months agoRyan Roney joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata
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1 year, 3 months agoJennifer Bauer posted an update in the group Eclectic Echinodermata
Added a blastoid to my digital fossil collection: click here for the images. This is a less common blastoid called Placoblastus. There are a few other types of these ‘blimp’ like blastoids, collectively called nucleocrinids. Very cool creatures because of the sizes of their body plates. Unlike most blastoids that have really big radial plates (second plate circlet from the mouth) these have really big deltoid plates (plates that surround the mouth). Also, they are quite adorable!
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1 year, 4 months agoStephanie Killingsworth joined the group Eclectic Echinodermata - Load More
Just now seeing the myFOSSIL card for scale! 😂
Hah!! @sadie-mills – it felt weird not including it!