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Crepidosoma doyleii

How to recognise them

Five arms made of lots of little plates.

 

Fossil Info

Crepidosoma is a type of brittlestar, a cousin of the starfish, from the Carboniferous Period (around 330 million years ago). Like modern brittlestars today it scavenged for a living by eating food particles on the seafloor. It was a tiny brittlestar and the oldest of its kind in Ireland. 

 

Fun Fact

Crepidosoma was discovered in 2018 in the Maam Valley, Co. Galway by Burren-Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark Geologist Dr Eamon Doyle.

 

Read more about this important discovery here

Ireland's Fossil Heritage

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, T23 TK30,

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