A student at the University of Oklahoma spotted pinhead-sized structures on a crinoid fossil sitting in a small Montreal museum. They turned out to be the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis — only the second crinoid ever found with preserved soft tissue, and the oldest by more than 200 million years. The post University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified only the second crinoid fossil ever found with preserved soft tissue — the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, dated to about 450 million years ago and spotted in a small museum collection in Montreal appeared first on Space Daily .
University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified only the second crinoid fossil ever found with preserved soft tissue — the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, dated to about 450 million years ago and spotted in a small museum collection in Montreal
