#crinoid

[echinoderm-of-the-day]

Pontiometra andersoni

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252123374

[kiabugboy]

Arthroacantha carpenteri

alt: is a crinoid with branching fractal arms with spines in each nodes, these arms jut out of a central cup atop a stalk, like a sea flower with tentacles

what's unique with Arthroacantha is the tiny moveable spines that pepper the surface of its cup possibly to brush away any snail parasites looking to perch on it

[reddpenn]

Video transcript: I'm taking a walk in the woods right now and I just found the most beautiful little crinoid. Look at that! Look at the little star in there! That's gorgeous. Always keep your eyes on the ground. Never look at the beautiful scenery; there's rocks down there.

[transparentfossil]

crinoid star fossils

[earlypalaeoart]

"The ancient fish and their huge rival: Ideal restoration of Pterygotus, the huge extinct sea-scorpion nine feet long; with the earliest known fish Pteraspis, Cephalaspis, and small shark-like animals swimming among Stone-lilies, Trilobites, etc."

From Winners in life's race, or, The great backboned family by Arabella B. Buckley, 1882

https://archive.org/details/winnersinlifesra00buckiala/

[samimarkart]

fossil fanatic design for people like me!! had fun adding the tully monster one - i love a good mazon creek fossil

[alex-fictus]

These creatures are still alive?! Evolved hundreds of millions of years ago and you can still go out there and find one alive today!

(Yes, stromatolites are more a sedimentary structure as the result of living activity but trace fossils are fossils too!)

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[myxineye]

some path vein guys + their transformations