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Related: About this forum'Living Fossil' Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
(Zapalski et al., Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 2021)
NATURE
MICHELLE STARR10 MAY 2021
A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of the ocean, after disappearing from the fossil record for hundreds of millions of years.
Scientists have found non-skeletal corals growing from the stalks of marine animals known as crinoids, or sea lilies, on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, off the coasts of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan.
"These specimens represent the first detailed records and examinations of a recent syn vivo association of a crinoid (host) and a hexacoral (epibiont)," the researchers wrote in their paper, "and therefore analyses of these associations can shed new light on our understanding of these common Paleozoic associations."
During the Paleozoic era, crinoids and corals seem to have gotten along very well indeed. The seafloor fossil record is full of it, yielding countless examples of corals overgrowing crinoid stems to climb above the seafloor into the water column, to stronger ocean currents for filter-feeding.
More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/living-fossil-thought-extinct-for-273-million-years-found-thriving-on-the-ocean-floor
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)Crinoids survived, why not blastoids ?
OK, I'm kind of goofy over blastoids. But then I'm from Alabama, "the Pentremites State"
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Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Symmetrical, like flowers, and snowflakes, etc. Interesting, beautiful. Overwhelming.
Thank you.
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)Not to mention crinoids, as in the article -- they are living fossils by themselves !
Blastoids are extinct members of the phylum Echinodermata. Perhaps it is that five-fold symmetry that catches the eye.
Fine old engraving. Thanks for sharing.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,185 posts)Single celled algae that have cell walls of silica, rather than cellulose. They look other worldly to me.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,229 posts)burrowowl
(17,640 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)Deep deeep deeeep deeeeep deeeeeep fried.
Disclaimer: I do not eat actual shrimp. Nor fake ones, fried or otherwise.
tavernier
(12,383 posts)and toss them directly in to the boiling pot on my stove in my galley. Right out of the ocean they are sweet as sugar. Melted butter and lemon. But not this time of the year. The weather has to be cold and blustery. Makes them even more delicious.
Shrimp, that is.
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years."
But, apparently, if I got this right, yer talkin' 'bout SHRIMP, not them damn pesky 273 million years ole shoulda been ex-stink-creechers in the pitcher of the OP.
Just like the ones I got in my pitcher.
Goddammit! Now I'm all cold and blustery!!
tavernier
(12,383 posts)No danger of exstinking shrimp. You got your fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, bar-b-cued shrimp, shrimp and grits......
KS Toronado
(17,220 posts)tavernier
(12,383 posts)Family entertainment every time I serve shrimp. We are easily amused here in the tropics.
eShirl
(18,490 posts)Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,655 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. ELIOT
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock