Some Fossil Sea Urchin Love!

Greetings! and Happy 2012! I'm back from holiday travel (last 2 months!) and so playing catch up.

But all of you guys shouldn't be kept wanting! Here's some neat sea urchin (Echinoidea) fossil videos!

Those of you on the Twitter feed may have seen this-but it is SUCH an incredible video I need to showcase it again! How do you clean/prepare a fossil Clypeaster? (Clypeaster is a close relative of sand dollars. Go here to see how).  Here ya go!


Another one showing different stages of fossil preparation of what looks like Clypeaster as well as several of the tools used...


Here's a nice look at some Taiwanese fossils-the irregular urchin Linthia taiwanensis from the Miocene of Taiwan!


If you can get past the music (and some of the directed marketing) this is actually a nice little video showing different fossil sea urchins..