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Description: | This specimen shows parts of a crinoid stem that was used to attach the animal to the sea floor and is made up of many separate plates or ossicles. The scars on the stem mark the position where simple branches known as cirri were attached when the crinoid was alive. Crinoids lived in warm tropical seas in varying water depths. They often formed large colonies known as gardens and were an important component of reef communities. Crinoids (sea lilies) are actually animals related to star fish. | 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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