Fossil urchin (Spain) on brass base
PUFO358-2
Pseudocidaris Mammosa is a prehistoric sea urchin from the Jurassic, easily recognizable thanks to its prickles in a bowling pin shape. No sea urchin nowadays has such "quills"! It was described by the French paleontologist Auguste Pomel in 1883. Frozen in its matrix, it evokes a dandelion flower that could be blown…
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