crinosity

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Among the echinoderms found at the excavation site, the feather stars — marine invertebrate crinoids with feathery arms — were the rarest.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021

"The stalked crinoids, I call those 'stalkie walkies'."

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2021

The trench bottom was home to an array of sea cucumbers,sea anemones, soft corals, jellyfish, comb jellyfish, giant amphipods, crinoids, crustaceans and fish.

From Scientific American • Apr. 15, 2013

Then we might have been able to see them still jetting through the ocean, rather than being stuck with more mundane long-term marine survivors such as the clamlike brachiopods and frond-shaped crinoids.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2013

The trilobites are gone, and of the crinoids only a remnant is left.

From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Holden, Edward Singleton