Hello friends, I have a fun Caribbean reef scene for you all today with a Golden Crinoid being the main subject. I rarely see these prehistoric looking creatures any more and if I do they are usually the all black ones, these orange ones are super hard to find. Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata). Crinoidea comes from the Greek word krinon, “a lily”, and eidos, “form”. They live both in shallow water and in depths as great as 6,000 metres (20,000 ft). Sea lilies refer to the crinoids which, in their adult form, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk
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