Pyritized Crinoid (Sea Lilly) | Seirocrinus subangularis | Holzmaden, Germany

Species: Seirocrinus subangularis

Formation: Posidonia Shale

Location: Holzmaden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Age: Lower Jurassic (approximately 180 million years old)

Slab measures approx 63 x 37.5 x 1.25 inches; largest crown measures 9.5 inches *Hanging system is included with this beautiful specimen 

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Crinoids are marine animals belonging to the phylum Echinodermata and the class Crinoidea. They are an ancient fossil group that first appeared in the seas of the mid Cambrian, about 300 million years before dinosaurs. They flourished in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras and some survive to the present day.