Word Meanings - CRINOIDEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Crinoidea.

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• CRINOIDEA
  A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.
• CRINOIDEAN
  One of the Crinoidea.
• PALEOCRINOIDEA
  A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
• ENCRINOIDEA
  That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.