Description: 5.5" fantastic Brittle Star Ophiura Fossil. Perfect larger display specimen with great limb arrangement. 190 million years old. Brittle Stars or Ophiuroids (aka Serpent Stars) are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea which are closely related to starfish. They generally have five long, flexible, slender, whip-like arms which may reach up to 60cm [24in] in length on the largest specimens, they use these for locomotion to crawl across the sea floor. Over 2,000 species of brittle stars live today with more than 1200 of these species found in deep waters, at greater than 200m deep!
Price: 84.99 USD
Location: Loveland, Colorado
End Time: 2024-12-19T04:30:21.000Z
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