Definition of Comatulid. Meaning of Comatulid. Synonyms of Comatulid

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Definition of Comatulid

Comatulid
Comatulid Co*mat"u*lid, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.

Meaning of Comatulid from wikipedia

- called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida. Crinoids are echinoderms...
- and is surrounded by five, often divided rays with feathery pinnules. Comatulids live on the seabed and on reefs in tropical and temperate waters. Bourgueticrinida...
- for durophagous predators since the Tri****ic. Survivors (such as the comatulids) could swim or crawl, behaved nocturnally or had autotomy (the ability...
- Ausichicrinites is a genus of feather stars (comatulids) in the upper Jur****ic period (Tithonian epoch), central western Ethiopia approximately 145 million...
- Comatulidae is a family of comatulid crinoids. Since 2015, it replaces the family Comasteridae. This family is of recent restoration, and still has no...
- (1985). "Functional morphology of the podia and ambulacral grooves of the comatulid crinoid Antedon bifida (Echinodermata)". Marine Biology. 86 (3). SpringerLink:...
- An indeterminate solanocrinitid representing the first known opalized comatulid crinoid reported to date is described from the Cretaceous strata in South...
- the 2025 scientific paper titled " First report of a nearly complete comatulid crinoid (Comatulida, Echinodermata) from the Cretaceous of Australia."...
- ligaments, supports a calyx or cup made of circlets of calcerous plates. In Comatulids, the stalk develops following the larval stage, but the juveniles shed...
- clumps of coral. Other animals observed near it included Keratoisis, comatulid crinoids, hyocrinid crinoids, primnoid octocorals, sea stars, bivalves...