What kind(s) of organisms are fossilized here? 24. These are fossils of the same kind of organism, a crinoid. Crinoids are very delicate creatures with many fine structures (see picture). In one of ...

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 ...

Now, she is the Smithsonian’s newest paleontologist, having joined the National Museum of Natural History as curator of fossil crinoids and other marine invertebrates. We caught up with Cole to ...

But drifting crinoid communities represent the earliest example of rafters in the fossil record, says Aaron Hunter, an evolutionary paleoecologist at the University of Cambridge in England.

The next 15 million years in the fossil record are dominated by crinoids, species similar to modern sea lilies and related to starfish. So abundant and diverse were these marine animals that the ...