Name/Title
Sea BudsEntry/Object ID
2011.57.58Description
Description: Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Blastoidea
Family:
Common Name: Sea Bud
Age: Ordovician to Permian
Location: Unknown
Description: A single large fossil Sea Bud. Hollow cavities on each end with draping crinoid shaped structures going from top to bottom in threes. Colors is beige to light tan.
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
1-3/4 inDepth
1-3/4 inLength
1-11/16 inLocation
Location
Container
RightDrawer
Top ShelfShelf
Right, RightWall
NorthRoom
Delmar Smith HallBuilding
Crater Rock MuseumCategory
PermanentMoved By
Steve MillerDate
July 28, 2011Location
Container
RightDrawer
Top ShelfShelf
LeftCabinet
Case # 50Wall
NorthRoom
Delmar Smith HallBuilding
Crater Rock MuseumCategory
Permanent
