Shell Specimen: Sea Stars and Brittle Stars
“Shelling” is a fun for professional scientist and amateurs alike. A majority of the shells below are composed of the mineral aragonite CaCO3. Many of my modern or “recent” shells have fossil relatives in my Fossil Gallery. Below I have organized images and data of some of my sea shells.
Special thanks to Tina Petway, Lucy Clampet and Gary Kidder for giving me what I could not find.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Echinodermata – Superclass: Asterozoa – Class: Asteroidea
(sea stars formerly “starfish”)
Triassic to Holocene
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Echinodermata – Superclass: Asterozoa – Class: Asteroidea
(brittle stars)
Ordovician to Holocene
Coming soon!
Data: Dance, S. Peter, Smithsonian Handbook: Shells, The photographic regognition guide to seashells of the world. A Dorling Kindersley Book.