Triple Ophiuroidea Brittle Star | Morocco Necklace The Union Pacific Coal Company

The Union Pacific Coal Company opened the first underground mine in 1881 after construction of the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Granger to Oregon

Late Pleistocene epoch

Sabalites powellii

25" x 3" from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco

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Triple Ophiuroidea Brittle Star | Morocco Necklace The Union Pacific Coal CompanyOphiuroidea Brittle Star Late Ordovician El Kaid Errami Valley Tafilalt, Morocco Specimen approx. size: 1. 5" x 1", 1" x 1", & 1" x 0. 5" Matrix approx. size: 5. 75" x 3. 25" x 1. 125" Members of the class Ophiuroidea, commonly known as brittle stars, are echinoderms distinguished by a small central disc and five slender, flexible arms clearly separated from the disc. Their skeleton is composed of articulated calcite plates (ossicles), often found