<i>Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi</i> gen. et sp. nov., a first nearly complete feather star (Crinoidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Africa
Journal: Royal Society Open Science
Year: 2022

Fossil comatulids, referred to as feather stars, are mostly known from highly disarticulated specimens. A single isolated element (centrodorsal) has been the basis for taxonomic description of a vast majority of fossil comatulids. Here, we report a nearly complete, and thus extremely rare, comatulid from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of the Blue Nile Basin in central western Ethiopia that provides a unique insight into the morphology of comatulid arms and cirri. It is assigned to <i>Ausichicrin