These 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Creatures Look Shockingly Similar to Buckyballs

Life on the ocean floor 80 million years ago was tough. Sea levels were shallow, predators were ever on the prowl, and there was always some other slimy, spiky, hard-shelled critter willing to steal your spot.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

These 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Creatures Look Shockingly Similar to Buckyballs

Life on the ocean floor 80 million years ago was tough. Sea levels were shallow, predators were ever on the prowl, and there was always some other slimy, spiky, hard-shelled critter willing to steal your spot.

more…

There are only about 600 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid- to late-Paleozoic era are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

I’d recently viewed a video
explaining how mineral crystals
replicate, which eventually spawned
non-mineral entities able to self replicate
that eventually lead to ‘WE The People…’

In any case, crystals are generally symmetrical,
so at least to my mind, thinking that early life forms
that ‘look like Buckyballs’ seems perfectly reasonable.

I, for one, am shocked, stunned, and not a little amazed.

I demand to know what our government proposes to do about this shocking situation.

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

These 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Creatures Look Shockingly Similar to Buckyballs

Life on the ocean floor 80 million years ago was tough. Sea levels were shallow, predators were ever on the prowl, and there was always some other slimy, spiky, hard-shelled critter willing to steal your spot.

more…

There are only about 600 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid- to late-Paleozoic era are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

I had no Idea that there were that many extant crinoid species. Can they all swim?

My favourite buckyball-like creatures are the coccolithophores.

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

These 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Creatures Look Shockingly Similar to Buckyballs

Life on the ocean floor 80 million years ago was tough. Sea levels were shallow, predators were ever on the prowl, and there was always some other slimy, spiky, hard-shelled critter willing to steal your spot.

more…

There are only about 600 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid- to late-Paleozoic era are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

I had no Idea that there were that many extant crinoid species. Can they all swim?

My favourite buckyball-like creatures are the coccolithophores.

Why “shockingly” ?

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

These 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Creatures Look Shockingly Similar to Buckyballs

Life on the ocean floor 80 million years ago was tough. Sea levels were shallow, predators were ever on the prowl, and there was always some other slimy, spiky, hard-shelled critter willing to steal your spot.

more…

There are only about 600 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid- to late-Paleozoic era are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

I had no Idea that there were that many extant crinoid species. Can they all swim?

My favourite buckyball-like creatures are the coccolithophores.

I have seen intertidal crinoids with holdfasts on a rock platform in NZ, so they certainly can’t _all_swim. Well, at least as adults.

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

There are only about 600 living species of crinoid, but the class was much more abundant and diverse in the past. Some thick limestone beds dating to the mid- to late-Paleozoic era are almost entirely made up of disarticulated crinoid fragments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

I had no Idea that there were that many extant crinoid species. Can they all swim?

My favourite buckyball-like creatures are the coccolithophores.

I have seen intertidal crinoids with holdfasts on a rock platform in NZ, so they certainly can’t _all_swim. Well, at least as adults.

Ta. Thanks :-)