Natural History - Massive Crinoid Plate

DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.

68 1/8 in. (90.5 kg, 1.73 m).

An impressive display containing multiple intact Scyphocrinus elegans specimens showing detailed crowns and stalks.

Provenance

From Erfoud, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Footnotes

Crinoids are filter feeding sea animals, which attach themselves to the bottom of the ocean with a stalk. They are echinoderms related to starfish, sea urchins, and brittle stars. Today they are referred to as ‘Sea Lilies’, and are virtually identical to their fossil relatives, making them living fossils.

CONDITION

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LOT 0396