Definition of Comatulids. Meaning of Comatulids. Synonyms of Comatulids

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Definition of Comatulids

Comatulid
Comatulid Co*mat"u*lid, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

Meaning of Comatulids from wikipedia

- called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida. Crinoids are echinoderms...
- and is surrounded by five, often divided rays with feathery pinnules. Comatulids live on the seabed and on reefs in tropical and temperate waters. Bourgueticrinida...
- Ausichicrinites is a genus of feather stars (comatulids) in the upper Jur****ic period (Tithonian epoch), central western Ethiopia approximately 145 million...
- for durophagous predators since the Tri****ic. Survivors (such as the comatulids) could swim or crawl, behaved nocturnally or had autotomy (the ability...
- ligaments, supports a calyx or cup made of circlets of calcerous plates. In Comatulids, the stalk develops following the larval stage, but the juveniles shed...
- An indeterminate solanocrinitid representing the first known opalized comatulid crinoid reported to date is described from the Cretaceous strata in South...
- Comatulidae is a family of comatulid crinoids. Since 2015, it replaces the family Comasteridae. This family is of recent restoration, and still has no...
- (1985). "Functional morphology of the podia and ambulacral grooves of the comatulid crinoid Antedon bifida (Echinodermata)". Marine Biology. 86 (3). SpringerLink:...
- comatulid crinoid. The type species is Singillatimetra inordinata. Solanocrinites voultensis Sp. nov Valid Hess Early Bathonian  France A comatulid crinoid...
- ISBN 978-3-86395-165-8. Hans Hess (2014). "Origin and radiation of the comatulids (Crinoidea) in the Jur****ic". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 133 (1):...