Sea lily
- Description
- Crinoids were animals that lived in warm fairly shallow water near reefs. They had jointed internal skeletons and quite small bodies. The crinoids shown here lived on the sea floor attached by a flexible stem. They are 260_325 million years old and come from the Mendip Hills.
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 5460
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Common Name
- sea lily
- Simple Name
- fossil
- Full Name
- crinoid
- Period Classification
- Carboniferous (359-299 million BP)
- Production Date
- 325-260 million BP (about)
- Material
- animal remains, rock
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Genus
- Actinocrinus sp
