Echinodermata

Small, completely preserved sea urchins without spines. As the spines are only attached to the body with a thin layer of tissue, they quickly fall off after the death of the animal and are carried away by the current. However, the body is preserved with the finest details, such as the spine bases or the pores on the ambulacral plates.Age: CretaceousLocality: MoroccoSize: approx. 1.5 cmThe photo is a sample image. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.Colors of the piece may differ from those in the picture for technical reasons.

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian, Chadium;Locality: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, EnglandSize: 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.3 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

Starfish or brittle star (ophiuroid), unspecified.From the well-known Bundenbach fossil deposit.Age: Lower Devonian. Locality: Bundenbach, Birkenfeld district, Hunsrücker Schiefer- and Burgenstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, GermanySize: approx. 8 x 8 cm Fossil: 2 x 5 cmColors on product photos may differ slightly from the original specimen due to technical reasons.

Age: Jurassic, Bajocian;Locality: Jaulny, Département Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est, FranceSize: approx. 7,5 x 2 cmThe colors on the photo may differ slightly from the original for technical reasons.  

Age: Devonian, Givetian, Wotan-Member, Loogh-Formation;Locality: Wotan quarry, Üxheim-Ahütte, Hillesheim, EifelSize: Fossil: 5 x 4,5 x 2,2 cm; Fossil: 3 x 3 cmThe colors on the photos may differ slightly from those of the original.

Age: Upper Permian;Locality: Kupang, Basleo, Timor, IndonesiaSize: about 3 cmThe photo serves as an example. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.

Sand dollars (Clypeasteroida) belong to the Irregularia, one of the two subclasses of sea urchins, and have adapted to life in rough coastal and near-shore waters. Their flat shape offers them little water resistance and the side arms of their intestines are filled with the heaviest pebbles they can find and swallow.Age: PlioceneLocality: Baja California, MexicoSize: 8 cmColors in product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.The photos are for reference only. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.

A complete and well-preserved fossil of Encrinus liliifomis.Very beautiful showpiece!Age: Middle Triassic, Muschelkalk;Locality: Crailsheim, district of Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyTotal size: approx. 47 x 29 x 5.5 cm crinoid: 3 x 6.5 cm; stalk: 15 cmColors on product photos may differ from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

You receive a set of two beautiful sea urchins, as shown in the pictures, partially with pyrite preservation.Age: Cretaceous, Campanian;Locality: Alemannia pit, Höver, Sehnde, Lower Saxony, GermanySize: 3.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm and 2.3 x 2 x 2 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.   

Crinoid specimen from Crawfordville.Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian; Locality: Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., Indiana, USASize: approx. 10,5 x 8,5 x 4,5 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.

Very well preserved and rare specimen!Age: Upper Carboniferous, Lower Ural Formation, Kasimov;Locality: Voskressensk, oblast Moscow, RussiaSize: 1 cm Colors on the pictures may differ from the colors of the original due to technical reasons.

Age: Devonian;Region: Rommersheim, Outcast Niederhersdorf, GermanySize: 2,3 x 2 cmThe colours on the pictures may slightly differ from the original specimen.

Beautiful sea urchin.Age: Cretaceous, Campanian; Locality: Höver, Sehnde, Lower Saxony, GermanyThe photo serves as the sample image. You will receive a fossil of comparable appearance and quality.Colors on photos may differ slightly from those of the original piece due to technical reasons.

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian (Tournai), Mulraugh Fm;Locality: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USASize: 4.5-5 cmThe specimen is supplied with an old and a new label.Colors on product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

Age: Lower Carboniferous, Mississippian, Sanders Group, Ramp Creek Limestone.Locality: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USASize fossil: approx. 1,5 x 3,5 cm Matrix: 6 cm x 2 cm x 1 cmColours on the photo may slightly differ from the original specimen.

These stalked echinoderms, like other Blastoidea, superficially resemble their distant relatives, the crinoids, which led an almost identical, planktivorous lifestyle and held on to the sea floor with a stalk. The stalk, which unfortunately is often not preserved, held the main body up into the water column, where they fished for food particles with small tentacles.Age: CarboniferousLocality: USASize: approx. 1.5 cm Matrix: 5 x 7 cmColors on product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.The photos are for reference only. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.  

Taking a closer look inside, you will see Aristotle's lantern (shown on the last two pictures). This is the sea urchin's chewing apparatus, which consists of several skeletal plates and five teeth. Age: Miocene;Locality: Florida, USASize: 11 x 10,5 cmThe colors in the pictures may differ slightly from the original due to technical reasons.You receive the pictured piece.

Deformed lobolite (hollow, spherical stem section of Scyphocrinites), the “floating body” or floating apparatus of a crinoid.Age: Silurian;Locality: Karlštejn, Beroun district, Středočeský kra (Central Bohemian Region), Czech RepublicSize: approx. 8 x 7 x 3 cmColors on product photos may differ slightly from those of the original specimen due to technical reasons.

These aberrant Australian sea urchins are particularly notable for the sunken spines that decorate the upper and lower sides of their skeleton. They have adapted to moving in the sediment, so that their anus is directed backwards while their mouth is located more centrally on the underside.Age: Lower Miocene, Burdigalian, Mannum Formation (approx. 20 million years)Locality: Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, AustraliaSize: 2-3 cmColors on photos may differ slightly from the original piece due to technical reasons.The photo is a sample image. You will receive a specimen of comparable quality.