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 ...

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.

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 ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- In the kingdom of crinoids, Burlington is the unquestioned capital -- the center of the universe. Forest Gahn began looking for the sea fossils in the summer of 1990, after ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another. During surveys from the ...

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