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Crinoids are echinoderms in the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. [5] They live in both shallow water [6] and in depths of over 9,000 metres (30,000 ft). [7] Adult crinoids are characterised by having the mouth located on the upper surface.
Pentacrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Hettangian to the Bathonian of Asia, Europe, North America, and New Zealand.Their stems are pentagonal to star-shaped in cross-section and are the most commonly preserved parts. [1]
Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that typically live deep in the ocean. Members of this order are attached to the seabed by a slender stalk and are known as sea lilies . While other groups of crinoids flourished during the Permian, bourgueticrinids along with other extant orders did not appear until the Triassic , following a mass ...
Cladida is a major subgroup of crinoids with a complicated taxonomic history. Cladida was originally applied to a wide assortment of extinct crinoids with a dicyclic calyx. Under this original definition, cladids would represent a paraphyletic order ancestral to several other major crinoid groups, particularly the living Articulat
Pentacrinoidea is a subclass of crinoids containing all members of Crinoidea except for the exclusively Paleozoic camerates (subclass Camerata).It was originally named in 1918 by Otto Jaekel, who hypothesized a fundamental split between camerate and non-camerate crinoids. [1]
Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America. Sources
Like extant crinoids, Agaricocrinus americanus was anchored to a hard surface by a holdfast out of which grew an articulated stalk. On top of this was a calyx with a number of feather-like arms. Each arm bore short branches known as pinnules and from these cirri were extended which sifted plankton from the water flowing past.
Scyphocrinus, is an extinct genus of crinoids.Species belonging to this genus lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods (from 443.4 to 358.9 Ma). [1] [2]The crinoid genus Camarocrinus have been considered by some authors the bulbous distal end of the stem of Scyphocrinus, having the function of a root and fixing the crinoid to the sea button.