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Ophiopinna Brittle Star from France #1

$125.00

  • Genuine Fossil Ophiopinna Brittle Star
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Ophiopinna

  • Brittle Star (Ophiopinna elegans)
  • Middle Jurassic Age
  • LaVoulte Sur Rhone, France
  • Mass mortality plate measures  3.69″ long
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Brittle stars are closely related to starfish. In the same way as starfish, they crawl across the sea floor using their flexible arms for locomotion.  On the other hand the arms are more slender and the central disk is sharply marked off from the arms.

Ophiopinna

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