Seelilien - Fossilplattenmatrix - Saccocoma tenella (Ohne mindestpreis)

Slab with eleven floating (pelagic) crinoids Saccocoma tenella (Goldfuss, 1831) from famous Solnhofen locality.
Matrix is cutted.
Unlike most crinoids, which remain attached to the seabed, Saccocoma was a delicate, free-swimming organism adapted for life in the open water above the lagoon environments that formed the Solnhofen deposits. Its body consisted of a small central cup surrounded by long, slender five doubly separated arms covered in fine branching structures used for filter-feeding. These arms helped Saccocoma capture tiny plankton and organic particles drifting through the water.

Age: Upper Jurassic, Tithonian, Solnhofen Limestone
Locality: Germany, Solnhofen
Matrix size: 193 x 144 x 13 mm
The largest crinoid size: 20x20 mm
Weight: 640 g

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