The sea, they're sea lilies.
A crinoid may reach up to1 meter but is usually much smaller
Yes, you can find crinoid stem sections and also individual disks of the crinoid stems on the beach in Indiana and Michigan. I find them every time I go to the beach in SouthWestern Michigan.
Crinoid
Image of trilobite and crinoid stem taken from the virtual petrified wend museum
The scientific name of sea lilies are crinoid
The mouth of the crinoid is located right next to the mouth and their digestive system is u-shaped. This is perfect in a sessile existence because, if they attach themselves to a surface, both the mouth and anus will be able to function.
This is a kind of starfish - an echninoderm animal. It's a crinoid. It looks like a plant, and has feather-like arms.
Tomasz K. Baumiller has written: 'Crinoid functional morphology and the energetics of passive suspension feeding'
In a habitat
habitat, niche, environment are all used to describe this.
i think it is considered the youngest it came after the crinoid stem and than the spirifer fossil also the neospirifer fossil than the acanthoscaphites fossil with meekoceras fossels
it is a habitat