Description
- Scyphocrinites elegans
- Upper Silurian Age
- Erfoud, Morocco, North Africa
- The plate measures 8.5″ long and the crinoid fills the entire length
Scyphocrinus, is an extinct genus of crinoids. Species belonging to this genus lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods (from 443.4 to 358.9 Ma). Scyphocrinites had a lobolith, which is a floating sphere that keeps an animal afloat in water. Unlike other crinoids, Scyphocrinites hung upside down at the surface.
