Large Clypeus ploti Echinoid Fossil

Clypeus ploti

Class Echinoidea

Geological Time: Jurassic – Bajocien Stage

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Fossil is 87 mm in diameter (3 7/16”).

Fossil Site: Lower Inferior Oolite, Cirencester, Glouchestershire, England

Fossil Code: PFO260

Price: $65.00

Description: Clypeus is a type of irregular echinoid. Irregular echinoids have a strong bilateral symmetry, unlike the regular echinoids that are round and have a radial symmetry. Clypeus had spines, but their spines would have been more like hair.

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