Scyphocrinites
Upper Silurian
Boutschrafin, Erfoud
Morocco.

Big 31 inch by 24 inch plate covered in crinoids. This was collected in the 1980’s when the best specimens were available. We haven’t seen these pure black crinoids in many years.

Scyphocrinites is a striking genus of crinoids, or sea lilies, that lived during the Late Silurian to Early Devonian. Unlike most crinoids that anchored to the seafloor, Scyphocrinites had large, balloon-like floats made of lobed structures called loboliths, allowing it to drift through ancient oceans. With its graceful, feathery arms filtering plankton from the water, it looked more like a drifting flower than an animal. Scyphocrinites is a beautiful and bizarre example of crinoid adaptation in prehistoric seas.

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