This crinoid, with its innumerable tentacular arms, appears to have been frequently attached to the driftwood of the liassic sea, in the same manner as Barnacles float about on wood at the present day.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
One of the most common is the crinoid.
"Diggers in the Earth"
Eva March Tappan
The first haul brought up a Chemidium-like sponge; the next gave us a crinoid, very much like the Rhizocrinus lofotensis, but probably different; the third, a living Pleurotomaria; the fourth, a new genus of Spatangoids, etc.
"Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence"
Louis Agassiz