bob

"A detail from the beautiful exhibit specimen of Uinticrinus socialis at the Sternberg Museum. This specimen was found by George F. Sternberg in Logan County. See other close-ups of individual crinoids in this specimen: HERE, HERE and HERE. "Their bodies were about the shape of half an egg, with an opening in the center, and ten arms radiating from the margin. These arms were three feet long, with feathered edges. Over the mouth, too, were smaller arms used to comb off into the mouth the tiny animal life of the sea, that was strained through, and caught in the meshes of the feathered arms. My boys found hundreds of these crinoids in the Chalk on Beaver Creek, Kansas, called Uintacrinus socialis. We enriched many Museums with them."" - bob via Bookmarklet

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