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lepadocrinites

Lepadocrinites Lepadocrinites had an elliptically shaped theca which is made up of a few rather large plates, with very large, rhomb-shaped respiratory pores. The five ambulacra are long and in life bore numerous brachioles. The stem is elongated and tapering, and made up of ridged columnals, which are short near the theca but longer on the stem. HABITAT In life, Lepadocrinites was attached hard substrates on the sea floor by a root. Copyright 1992 Dorling Kindersley Limited, London Text copyright 1992 Cyril Walker, David Ward. .