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Description: | Crinoids (sea lilies) were animals related to sea urchins and starfish. Their skeletons were composed of numerous plates made of calcium carbonate. Usually, after death, these fragile skeletons fell to pieces and it is rare to find examples as complete as this. The Silurian rocks exposed at Dudley are world famous for the crinoids and other well preserved fossils they contain. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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