Fossil echinoderms, including the common Cambrian and Ordovician echinoderms figured here (Fig. 1 from Deline, et al., 2021; request permission to use here) have a rich and diverse fossil record.

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Fossil echinoderms—including the edrioasteroid here (Carneyella pilea, Corryville Formation, Dent, Ohio, CMCIP 26324 specimen 12.8 mm wide) attached to a crinoid stem in life position—have a rich and ...

The star shape of the starfish (five arms) is intriguing to many marine aficionados. But how it came to be is a question not many can answer. It is due to a gap in the fossil record of echinoderms, ...

Taphonomy as an indicator of behavior among fossil crinoids / Tomasz K. Baumiller ... [et al.] -- Attachment, facies distribution, and life history strategies in crinoids from the Upper Ordovician of ...

After four years of digging for fossils in a churchyard in York, Pennsylvania, amateur paleontologist Chris Haefner made an intriguing find. “I knew it was worth keeping,” he said. He posted his ...

To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the ...

Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent extinctions ...

While some indulged in baking through lockdown, a husband-and-wife team discovered an exceptionally large and well-preserved group of Jurassic starfish. By Aina J. Khan LONDON — Millions of years ...