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- noun Plural form of
crinoid .
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Examples
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Now, a study by University of Michigan paleontologist Tomasz Baumiller and colleagues finds that sea urchins have been preying on marine animals known as crinoids for more than 200 million years and suggests that such interactions drove one type of crinoid --- the sea lily --- to develop the ability to escape by creeping along the ocean floor.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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At the bottom lived invertebrates such as crinoids, trilobites, and brachiopods that left their remains in the ancient mud.
unknown title 2009
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"Junior" by Robert Abernathy (wherein the characters are tunicates or crinoids) "Love is the Plan - The Plan is Death" by Tiptree
Aliens frankwu 2009
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We found quite a few brachiopods, some crinoids and bryozoans - your typical invertebrate fun I forgot to take pictures!
Fieldwork Friday #10 ReBecca Foster 2009
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He argues that At the Mountains of Madness is in the middle between Vampire (crinoids gonna vivisect you!) and Thing (entropic shoggoth creation), and I think adding the Ghost is trivial, given that Kadath is nothing but a giant haunted house.
princeofcairo: An Anatomy of Horror princeofcairo 2009
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The Permian extinction, 244 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, and most crinoids died out, as did the last of the trilobites.
Paleozoic 2009
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Articulate brachiopods and one lineage of crinoids survived, but never again dominated the marine environment.
Paleozoic 2009
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I purposefully used big, exaggerated strokes on the crinoids.
Archive 2009-05-01 Peter Bond 2009
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We found quite a few brachiopods, some crinoids and bryozoans - your typical invertebrate fun I forgot to take pictures!
Archive 2009-07-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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He argues that At the Mountains of Madness is in the middle between Vampire (crinoids gonna vivisect you!) and Thing (entropic shoggoth creation), and I think adding the Ghost is trivial, given that Kadath is nothing but a giant haunted house.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word crinoids
JM is looking for his old class photo, Crinoids 1972.
March 10, 2010