Crinoids, as featured in previous posts are interesting animals related to starfish and found washed in with the tide on the beach. Alive they appear quite different than dead. There are many different crinoids. The crinoids in these images have water bearing vessels which are white when alive and look quite dramatic against their blood red head. When dead the vessels are not clearly visible and the animal dehydrates in appearance and becomes more like the fossil forms discovered in deserts and other locations sometimes far from existent oceans but which once were seas. Whilst in past golden eras of crinoids, they were hugely proliferate, crinoids are now not so common, but there are still quite a few kinds worldwide. I have not discovered what kind of crinoids are in my images on this site. Most of the crinoid information I find on the web relates to American, Atlantic and Indian Ocean crinoids. The crinoids in these images could have started off in Indonesia or Pacific Islands. I am not to know their origin. I welcome any accurate identification.mailto:identification.zet.get888@ymail.com or telephone and leave a message please.
