7.5" Scyphocrinites Elegans Crinoid Fossil Plate Sea Lilly Echinoderm Morocco Stand
Location: Boutschrafin, Erfoud, Morocco
Weight: 2 Pounds 2.4 Ounces
Dimensions: 9.2 Inches Tall, 7.5 Inches Wide, 0.7 Inches Thick (Plate)
Crinoid is: 7.5 Inches Tall, 4.5 Inches Wide
Comes with a Free Stand.
The Item Pictured is the one you will receive.
Scyphocrinites Elegans
Upper Silurian in age (420 million years old)
Crinoids, often called sea lilies, are animals and not plants. They belong to the echinoderm family, which includes starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars. During the Paleozoic era, most crinoids attached themselves to ocean floor substrates. They are well known for their feathery, tentacle-like arms that spread out like flowers to catch food particles such as plankton. Although they first appeared in the Ordovician period, crinoids managed to survive the Permian mass extinction and have diversified into hundreds of species still thriving today.
