The Crinoidea, a class of marine echinoderms, have long captivated palaeontologists as one of the most enduring and diverse components of the marine fossil record. Their evolutionary history spans ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 93, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2019), pp. 1137-1158 (22 pages) End-Ordovician extinctions had a profound effect on shallow-water benthic communities, including the Crinoidea.

Researchers have detailed the bizarre-looking species of crinoids known as the Antarctic strawberry feather star. The free-swimming organisms which mostly live in warm waters are spotted to have an ...

Gerard Troost (1776-1850) was a Dutch paleontologist and geologist who came to America in 1810. In 1831 he became State Geologist of Tennessee. His special interest was the crinoid class of the ...