Sea urchin
Echinocystitoida are an extinct form of echinoid, or sea urchin. Sea urchins are round and covered in spines, but have an exoskeleton or ‘test’ with the same five-fold symmetry as all other echinoderms. They move using hundreds of tiny ‘tube feet’ and a water vascular system.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/I/312
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Sladen, Mr Walter Percy (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- sea urchin
- Simple Name
- fossil: echinoderm
