Crinoid "Feather Stars" Columnal Segments rockinaboxatlasaurus The specimen in the Core

The specimen in the Core Sample was recovered from deposits near Glendive

It comes from Samlat Formation fossil beds near Dakhla in Southern Morocco

and frankly they are best displayed in the open

The Plutonium produced here was used in both the Trinity test on July 16

When possible

Crinoid "Feather Stars" Columnal Segments rockinaboxatlasaurus The specimen in the CoreSometimes referred to as feather stars or sea lilies, Crinoids are members of an extended and very ancient family of sea animals known as echinoderms. Echinoderms date back as far as the Cambrian period some 541,000,000 years ago. They include such varied animals as sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and starfish. Their development was part of a much larger explosion of complex life on Earth which resulted in most of the animal or metazoan body plans we know