Crinoid Fossils


Crinoid fossils (Pentacrinites briareus) from the Lias of Lyme Regis, UK. Pentacrinites lived in the warm tropical seas of the Jurassic Period. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.


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