[Rockhounds] Crinoid Videos was Civil War Tombstone

[Mr EMan]

> what fossils were identified in  "granite"? smkell

I think the confusion might stem from the fact that everyone but rockhounds take most all rocks for granite neyt neyt neyt  (granted...get it?)...

Here is a video of a true crinoid apparently "walking/undulating" along a sea floor. A deepsea submersible caught this crinoid "migrating" but the holdfast is not visible so we don't know if it was just knocked loose or some instinctive release of the holdfast to escape.  Perhaps, in time, we'll have more evidence. 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_px48dob8>

Crinoid Lecture Parts 1 and 2.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0xAddCHw4>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adbT5we0nMM>

The basket or feather starfish is thought by some to have evolved off the crinoid line and not starfish. Here are some YouTUbe links to  feather stars, there are many more:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7zPZCV-Ho>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZStR2AhUtA>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlShDV4en_4>

Eman
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, betdav97 at aol.com <betdav97 at aol.com> wrote:
> The tombstone was limestone, not granite, and yes,
> crinoids still exist today. The common name is sea lillies.
> Crinoids have been in the fossil record since Devonian
> times. Alan, it was on the Paleolist forum.
> dave
>
> From: smkell45 at aol.com