Fig. 12
From: Triassic: the crucial period of post-Palaeozoic crinoid diversification
Reconstruction of a typical Anisian Encrinid/Holocrinid habitat in the late Anisian (early Illyrian) sponge-coral reefs of the Karchowice Formation (Lower Muschelkalk, Upper Silesia, Poland). Encrinus aculeatus was permanently attached by a holdfast, e.g. to hexactinellid sponges. The cirrus-attached Holocrinus meyeri was able to change its location