Brittle star
- Description
- Brittle stars, or ophiuroids, are echinoderms closely related to starfish. They have long, slender, and flexible arms which they use to crawl along the sea bed. Oegophiurida are an extinct order of brittle stars.
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/I/289
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Common Name
- brittle star
- Simple Name
- fossil: echinoderm
- Full Name
- ECHINODERMATA; STELLEROIDEA; Ophiuroidea; Oegophiurida; Furcasteridae; Furcaster leptosoma (Salter)
- Geology Period
- Devonian 416 – 359 mya
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Sladen, Mr Walter Percy (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Bundenbach
- Collection Country
- Germany
- Collection Area Region
- Western Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ECHINODERMATA
- Family
- Furcasteridae
- Genus
- Furcaster
- Species
- leptosoma
