#echinoid

[echinoid-fossils-on-the-rocks]

More variety of echinoids from different ovale forms, in flint colors on the rock plates.

They looks like dry crusty crumble cookies.

[transparentfossil]

1.6" Jurassic Fossil Echinoid (Acrosalenia) - Morocco

[resedaluteola]

More sea urchins - forever in love with the fragility of their bodies beneath the spines.

(04.2025)

[prasemvanguardgerman]

The new wave of echinodem. Some in ovale, brown with little remicent of their distant shell pattern. Found great ones in good condition.

The two orange broken parts in orange flint.

Some have clear pattern, others are chunky.

And the other three in gray, with outstanding intact one in darker gray.

All are good example to shown of the varity to finding and for id.

[se9ua]

Buscando erizos de mar en pozas intermareales por la península de Cavancha, Iquique.

[bluenoo42]

Regular echinoid fossil I found today. It is from the Vectis formation and is around 80 million years old.

See the perfect five-fold symmetry as opposed to the irregular echinoid I posted yesterday.

[awehaven]

Fossil Sea Urchins (echinoids) from the Cretaceous period, discovered along my Life path.

©Robin Fifield.

[smellofwater]

Beachcombing - A Fairy Loaf

I found this lovely flint fossil echinoid on the beach between Marske and Redcar. The fossil is smooth to the touch and heavy in the hand, beautiful dense flint with an unmistakable five pointed star on its upper surface, it’s a first for me. Fossil echinoids are not uncommon finds in areas with chalk bedrock but this is the first example that I have found on our beaches. Fossil echinoids have…

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