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    Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that remain attached to the sea floor by a stalk in their adult form are commonly...
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    The crinoid shrimp, or feather star shrimp Hippolyte catagrapha, is a species of shrimp in the family Hippolytidae Crinoid shrimps grow to up to 3 cm in...
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    This list of crinoid genera is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been considered to be crinoids, excluding purely...
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    known as crinoids. He and his collaborator, Frank Springer, published numerous articles on the subject and built an exceptional collection of crinoid fossils...
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    Myzostoma fuscomaculatum, the crinoid worm, is a species of marine worm in the family Myzostomatidae. Crinoid worms are tiny worms with stubby legs which...
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  • Look up cirrus or cirri in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biology, a cirrus (/ˈsɪrəs/ SIRR-əs, pl.: cirri, /ˈsɪraɪ/ SIRR-eye, from the Latin cirrus...
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    The Camerata or camerate crinoids are an extinct subclass of Paleozoic stalked crinoids. They were some of the earliest crinoids to originate during the...
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    The elegant feather star (Tropiometra carinata) is a species of crinoid in the family Tropiometridae. Elegant feather stars may grow to 20 cm in total...
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    Starfish of varied colours A sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Crinoid on a coral reef Echinoderms evolved from animals with bilateral symmetry...
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    Agaricocrinus americanus, also known as the mushroom crinoid or American crinoid, is a species of extinct crinoid. Its fossils can be found in the U.S. states...
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    Allogalathea elegans (known as the feather star squat lobster, crinoid squat lobster or elegant squat lobster) is a species of squat lobster that is sometimes...
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    most of the grains are crinoid ossicles. In older literature, the word is sometimes used to refer to individual fossil crinoids, but this usage is obsolete...
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  • Unguitrema nigrum, also known as the Black crinoid clingfish is a species of clingfish endemic to Papua New Guinea. This species occurs Madang Lagoon...
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    they had with crinoids. Platyceratids are thought to have been parasitic on crinoids, either drilling into the stomach to steal the crinoid's food in a form...
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  • The Denbury Crinoidal Limestone is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal England...
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    Indian bead (category Prehistoric crinoids)
    a colloquial American term for a fossilized stem segment of a columnal crinoid, a marine echinoderm of the class Crinoidea. The fossils, generally a centimeter...
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  • Michigan. Among the more commonly occurring specimens are bryozoans, corals, crinoids, and brachiopods. Also found, but not so commonly, are armored fish called...
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  • Aethocrinus is an early-diverging crinoid reported from the Early Ordovician. Its five arms bifurcate. The contested Echmatocrinus notwithstanding, it...
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    Scyphocrinus (category Silurian crinoids)
    extinct genus of crinoids. Species belonging to this genus lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods (from 443.4 to 358.9 Ma). The crinoid genus Camarocrinus...
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    St. Cuthbert's beads (category Prehistoric crinoids)
    Cuddy's beads) are fossilised portions of the "stems" of crinoids from the Carboniferous period. Crinoids are a kind of marine echinoderm which are still extant...
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    including all living crinoid species. They are commonly known as sea lilies (stalked crinoids) or feather stars (unstalked crinoids). The Articulata are...
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    brachiopods, ammonoids, hederelloids, microconchids and echinoderms (especially crinoids).[citation needed] The diversity of brachiopods and fusilinid foraminiferans...
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    Comatulida is an order of crinoids. Members of this order are known as feather stars and mostly do not have a stalk as adults. The oral surface with the...
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  • Antarctic strawberry feather star, is a species of stemless, free-swimming crinoid. It was one of several new species of Promachocrinus to be described in...
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    Ptilometra australis, the passion flower feather star, is a species of crinoid. It is native to the coasts of southeastern Australia where it is found...
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    Silurian) near Fairborn, Ohio, U.S., showing grains mainly composed of crinoid fragments A concretionary nodular (septarian) limestone at Jinshitan Coastal...
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    Originally calcitic crinoid stem (in cross-section) diagenetically replaced by marcasite in a siderite concretion; Lower Carboniferous....
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    result of LOME. The Early Silurian was a chaotic time of turnover for crinoids as they rediversified after LOME. Members of Flexibilia, which were minimally...
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    the echinoderms (whose modern members include starfish, sea urchins and crinoids), are quite common from the start of the Cambrian, 542 million years ago...
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    Davidaster discoideus, the beaded crinoid, is a species of feather star in the family Comatulidae. It was previously known as Nemaster discoidea but the...
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