Name/Title
Sea BudsEntry/Object ID
2011.57.52Description
Description: Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Blastoidea
Family: Unknown
Common Name: Sea Buds
Age: Ordovician to Permian
Location: Unknown
Description: Somewhat circular, rough and layered shale with multiple fossils of varying size embedded within. Color is overall a dull lime-green with beige fossils.
Physical Characteristics:
Blastoids (Class Blastoidea) are an extinct type of stemmed echinoderm. Often called sea buds, blastoid fossils look like small hickory nuts. They originated, along with many other echinoderm classes, in the Ordovician period and reached their greatest diversity in the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period. Blastoids persisted until their extinction at the end of Permian, about 250 million years ago. Although never as diverse as their contemporary relatives, the crinoids, blastoids are common fossils, especially in many Mississippian-age rocks.
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Class: Blastoidea
Phylum: EchinodermataCollection
Museum Collection of FossilsAcquisition
Accession
2011.57Source or Donor
Museum Collection of FossilsAcquisition Method
Long-term LoanDimensions
Width
3-3/4 inDepth
1 inLength
4-7/8 inLocation
Location
Container
LeftDrawer
3rd ShelfShelf
RightCabinet
Case # 50Wall
NorthRoom
Delmar Smith HallBuilding
Crater Rock MuseumCategory
Permanent
