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Name:
Archaeocidaris illinoisensis
Age: Mississippian
Formation: St. Louis Formation
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Size: Plate is 5 inches tall
This is a very rare and important find. It is a beautiful plate of three Archaeocidaris illinoisensis from the Mississippian of St. Louis. Fossil echinoids from the St. Louis area are famous around the world and have been extremely sought-after by collectors for decades. These spiny urchins are larger than the Lepidocidaris found in the Mississippian Warsaw Formation, and are OLDER than the Pennsylvanian Archaeocidaris from Texas. These urchins themselves are complete with MANY barbed spines still intact. Most of the types of urchins from this site have smooth spines (there are three species!), and ones with the barbed spines are rarer. The echinoids display well on the large, squared plate of matrix. This is a fabulous MULTIPLE example of Mississippian echinoids from the St. Louis Formation.
This fossil was collected and obtained legally, and is also being sold legally.
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