-
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:...
- praised: The
description of the
entire world fauna of over 600
species of
comatulids has now been completed. All parts,
except this latest, were
written by...
- ISBNÂ 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):...
