The diversity and abundance of echinoderm fossils is reflected in the Museum's large, world-class collection. Fossil echinoderms are numerous, due in part to the fantastic preservation potential of ...

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.

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 ...

Caption 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 ...

Crinoids are echinoderms, a group that also includes ... They are very fragile and require specific conditions to be ...

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 ...

However, scientists have found it difficult to determine when brittle stars, a gangly group of echinoderms, started reproducing this way. A recently discovered fossil from Germany pushes the ...

He will talk about a new fossil echinoderm that he discovered north of the city of York, which of the same age as two Manheim Township fossils. He has donated two fossils to the collection of ...

If You Go What: Community Fossil Dig When: Today ... a fossilized crinoid. Crinoids are echinoderms in the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes brittle stars, sea urchins, starfish and ...

The fossils, largely mollusks and echinoderms, were found at a site with no known proximity to the sea. Researchers suggest they may have been collected by Neanderthal children, drawn to their ...