A plantlike sea animal; a type of echinoderm. Also called sea lily.
Also known as sea lilies (Image)(Image), these are actually animals, not plants and are most closely related to starfish. Usually only fragments of their stems are found as fossils. These may often resemble "stars" or life savers embedded in stone (Image).
Crinoid - A usually stalked echinoderm characterized by a crown attached to a somewhat flexible stem.
A marine invertebrate, generally having a body in subject of gossip form and tentacles the five or plumosos ones. Some hundreds species exist at the moment, but the extinct thousands of species have been in fossil form, particularly in paleozoicas limestone stones of the era. The distinguishing skeletons of crinoids do important paleozoicos fossils to them of the index .
a marine animal consisting of a cup or "head" containing the vital organs, numerous radiating arms, an elongate, jointed stem, and a root-like attachment to the sea bottom while the body, stem and arms float.
An echinoderm with a flowerlike body atop a long stalk of calcite disks [LCOTE
Crinoids, also known as "sea lilies" or "feather-stars", are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata). They live both in shallow water and in depths as great as 6000 meters. Crinoids are characterized by a mouth on the top surface that is surrounded by feeding arms.