Crinoids past and present

[charisstoma]

Somehow I thought that these were gone to the stone of the extinct. Nope. And the modern free swimming version is a mystic thing of fairy tale.


Fossil

http://By Vassil - Alias Collections., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3200543


http://By Ghedoghedo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11271896

Present
A Bathycrinidae (abyssal species which restored the use of a stalk)

http://By NOAA Okeanos Explorer - http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream_02.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42077485


Feather Starfish (this also is a crinoid)