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brittle star

NOUN
basket star
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The newly described brittle star is another treasure imprinted onto the site’s limestone slabs.

From New York Times • May 14, 2024

The brittle star fossil was discovered in the Nusplingen limestone deposit in southern Germany.

From New York Times • May 14, 2024

In a paper published Wednesday in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of scientists describe the fossil of a brittle star that was petrified while regenerating three of its six limbs.

From New York Times • May 14, 2024

Clockwise from top left: an anemone, a brittle star, Acanthogorgiidae coral and a pencil urchin.Credit:

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

It has been asserted that no one has ever captured by hand a brittle star perfect in all its members.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)