While similar corals and crinoids have existed throughout fossil record, their symbiotic link was presumed lost after the Paleozoic era. A crinoid creature can be seen with the globular non ...

“My reaction was surprise.” An examination of the cleaned-up fossil revealed that it was a regurgitated meal consisting of the two crinoids, a relative of the modern-day sea starfish. Experts ...

They want to recognize the fossils of crinoids, which are marine invertebrates abundant in the rock of marine origin underlying the state, as the state's official fossil. The lawmakers ...

Buckland noticed that these crinoid fossils were attached to small pieces of driftwood we call lenses, which had turned into coal. He hypothesised that the crinoids had been attached to the ...