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LOT 0396
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.
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