Although the status of Crinoidea (sea lilies and featherstars) as sister group to all other living
echinoderms is well-established, relationships among crinoids, particularly extant forms, are …

Crinoids reached their highest generic richness and overall abundance during the
Mississippian, which thus has been dubbed the Age of Crinoids. The causes are …

Rugose corals are one of the major fossil groups in shallow-water environments. They
played an important role in dividing and correlating Carboniferous strata during the last …

The biodiversity and biogeography of 217 genera of Mississippian crinoids from North
America and the British Isles shed light on the macroevolutionary turnover between the …

During the Carboniferous, crinoids were commonly so abundant that their skeletal ossicles
formed limestones termed encrinites. Major evolutionary changes occurred within the …

New Devonian (Frasnian and Famennian) crinoids are described from central and eastern
Iran and a new Mississippian (late Tournaisian) echinoderm fauna is described from the …

Platycrinites is traditionally one of the more recognizable crinoids, a camerate crinoid with
very few if any fixed brachials or interradials and a helically twisted column. Accordingly …

Analysis of anal plates of type species of most cladid crinoid genera (excluding codiacrinid
and some gasterocomacids) recognizes four catagories of anal plating conditions …

A total of 47 genera, in 80 species, of Mississippian, or Lower Carboniferous, crinoids are
evaluated from 61 localities in Scotland based on a modern update of the literature, study of …

George Demetrius Sevastopulo (1941–2021), palaeontologist and stratigrapher: an
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