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Crinoid

Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that remain attached to the sea floor by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida. Crinoids are echinoderms in the phylum Echinodermata, which…

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Crinoid

Nodes178
Edges177
Triples192
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Taxonomy · 34
Crinoid → Ampelocrinida, Articulata, CalceocrinidaParvclass CladidaSuperorder, CamerataOrder, Class Crinoidea, Comatulida, Crinoidea, CyathoformesSuperorder ArticulataOrder, Cyrtocrinida, DiplobathridaOrder, DisparidaOrder, EncrinidaOrder, EustenocrinidaOrder, FlexibiliaOrder, HolocrinidaOrder, HybocrinidaOrder, Hyocrinida, Isocrinida, It, Living
related to Fossil crinoid gallery · 25
Crinoid → Crushed, Early, Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale, Formation, Germany, GermanyCrinoid, GermanyCrinoidSome, Holzmaden, IowaCrinoid, IranFossil, Isocrinus, Jurassic, Jurassic Holzmaden Black Shale, KentuckySeirocrinus, Lower Carboniferous, Middle Devonian, Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, Monstrocrinus, Mount Carmel Junction, OhioFossils
related to Locomotion · 16
Crinoid → At, Crinoids, Examples, Florometra, Grand Bahama Island, In, Marsupites, Most, Neocrinus, Saccocoma, Such, Swimming, The, They, Uintacrinus, While
related to Predation · 15
Crinoid → Calocidaris, Carboniferous-aged, Coprolites, Devonian, Endoxocrinus, Jurassic, Late Devonian Poland, Platyceras, Saccocoma, Solnhofen, Some, Specimens, The, These, Various
related to In culture · 12
Crinoid → Alien, Cuthbert's, Eperisocrinus, Fossilised, Indian, Lindisfarne, Middle Ages, Midwestern United States, Missouri, Similarly, St, The
related to Morphology · 11
Crinoid → Clitheroe, England, Further, In, It, Juvenile, Lower Carboniferous, Most, Numerous, The, These
related to Diversity · 10
Crinoid → After, At, Cambrian, Echinodermata, Echinoderms, Mya, Ordovician, Paleozoic, Permian, The
related to Origins · 9
Crinoid → Burgess Shale, Camptostroma, Echmatocrinus, However, If, Ordovician, Recent, The, Two
related to Reproduction and lifecycle · 9
Crinoid → Antarctica, Antedon, Crinoids, Even, In, Not, Permian, The, While
related to Water vascular system · 9
Crinoid → It, Like, No, Oxygen, The, These, They, This, Three

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crinoids arms pinnules sea stem species mouth feet known stars echinoderms tube stalk water tegmen anus class also living body

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Crinoidis astem0.90text
the sea urchinsinstance ofunlike in the other echinoderm groups0.80text
starfishinstance ofunlike in the other echinoderm groups0.80text
and brittle starsinstance ofunlike in the other echinoderm groups0.80text
where the mouth is on the undersideinstance ofunlike in the other echinoderm groups0.80text
Crinoidrelated to DiversityEchinoderms0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityCambrian0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityMya0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityAt0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityEchinodermata0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityThe0.60section
Crinoidrelated to DiversityOrdovician0.60section

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