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Specimen: Dendraster giblesi

Age: Pliocene

Location: USA.

Size (picture scale cube=1cm): 48 x 58 x 6mm (1.89 x 2.28 x 0.24 inches)

They have a hard shell covered with small knobs (tubercles) to which spines are attached in living echinoids. The test and spines are the parts normally found as fossils. Spines, some poison-tipped, help protect echinoids from their predators, which include other echinoids, crustaceans, octopuses and fish.

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