Crepidosoma doylei
Crepidosoma doylei
Site Details
- Location
- Crepidosoma doylei
- Grid reference
- 53.4889, -9.5546
- Fossil Name
- Crepidosoma doyleii
- Fossil Type
- Ophiuroid
- Fossil Age
- Silurian
- Rock Type
- Siltstone
- Access Info
- Historic discovery - not accessible
- Fossil Info
- Crepidosoma is a type of brittlestar, a cousin of the starfish, from the Carboniferous Period (around 330 million years ago). Like modern brittlestars today it scavenged for a living by eating food particles on the sea floor. It was a tiny brittlestar and the oldest of its kind in Ireland.