Bourgueticrinida

Bourgueticrinida
	Drawing of sea lilies by Haeckel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Crinoidea
Subclass:	Articulata
Order:	Bourgueticrinida
Families
	Bathycrinidae; Bourgueticrinidae; Phrynocrinidae; Porphyrocrinidae; Septocrinidae

Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that typically live deep in the ocean. Members of this order are attached to the seabed by a slender stalk and are known as sea lilies. While other groups of crinoids flourished during the Permian, bourgueticrinids along with other extant orders did not appear until the Triassic, following a mass extinction event in which nearly all crinoids died out.

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