Some of them, as the encrinites or sea-lilies, are permanently fixed by a stalk when adult.
Encrinites were exceedingly numerous in past ages of the world's history; of those still existing our knowledge has been greatly increased of recent years through deep-sea dredging.
On the left are other corals: the Cyathophyllum with straight cylindrical stems; some Encrinites (Cyathocrinus and Platycrinus) wound round the trunk of a tree, or with their flexible stem floating in the water.
Some fine Encrinites are seen, with their long flexible stems, and a few Mytili and Terebratulæ.
Echinodermata, sometimes called feather-stars or sea-lilies, and well known in fossil forms as encrinites or stone-lilies.
There is one peculiarity in connection with the habitats of the encrinites and corals which goes some distance in supplying us with a useful clue as to the conditions under which this portion of the carboniferous formation was formed.
These encrinites grew in such profusion that after death, when the plates of which their stems consisted, became loosened and scattered over the bed of the sea, they accumulated and formed solid beds of limestone.
The mountain limestone, for instance, is eight hundred feet or more in thickness, and in some places consists of the exuviae of encrinites and testacea.
The encrinites most common in the fossil state are Pentacrinus fasciculosus, belonging to the lias; Apiocrinus rotundus, which is found in the oolite or jurassic rocks; and Encrinus liliformis, which appertains to the Triassic period.
The root and stem of the fixed encrinites seem to indicate that the animal can only live with the head erect.
The encriniteswere among the earliest objects of scientific description.
The encrinites raise, as from the dead, a whole world buried in the abyss of the past.
Encrinites abounded in the seas during the transition and secondary epoch.
The encrinites and the star-fishes thus live in company, and that at prodigious depths, and under a body of water which no light can reach.
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