Finding Crinoids
Authors: Scyphocrinites Crinoids
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The Scyphocrinites Crinoids site, few miles from Erfoud (Morrocco), a strange feeling overwhelm you when you imagine that you are standing on what was once the bottom of a sea full of marine life, now it is all desert whith new inhabitants, lizards, snakes and many other desert creatures
First step is to dig few meters deep pit
then after finding Crinoids traces you dig a horizontal tunnel follong the traces
Inside the Tunnel
That´s how an unprepared Crinoid looks like
That´s how it look like once prepared
Scyphocrinites used to live with their Lobolith floating and crinoids sinking down water
This is a Lobolith
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