Encrinus Cup

Encrinus
Cup

Caffè-Tè Cup (ceramic). The cup is illustrated twice – on front and back – with the same fossil animal and related scientifc information. That is why the cups are equally suitable for right-handers and left-handers! Moreover, they are educational and pedagogically applicable.

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SKU: 901001-2

 

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Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Capacity: 300 ml
Weight: 335 g

 

PALAEOLOVE artwork and art wares are recognizable due to their scientifically accurate visualisation that is accompanied by sound, science-based information. Our products are designed in Switzerland and analogously & digitally handmade in Switzerland and other European countries under the guidance of experts, true to the motto: «Science meets Design»!

The abbreviation «MIO» (= million, after the German national standard DIN 5008) – occasionally found on our goods and product pages to indicate the geological age of fossil taxa – is equivalent to «MYA» (= million years ago).

 

Depicted Animal

Encrinus liliiformis  LAMARCK, 1801
1.6 M    242 MYA   

Systematics: Encrinidae, Encrinida, Crinoidea, Echinodermata
Habitat: marine, shallow waters; benthic

Crown (cup and arms with pinnulae) of a marine animal called sea lily. Encrinus liliiformis was attached to a substrate via a stalk and root, and lived stationary during its whole life. The species is the dominant rock-forming crinoid of the Trochitenkalk Formation (Upper Muschelkalk, Middle Triassic) of the Germanic Basin and known for a long time. It was already described in 1546 by the famous Renaissance scientist Georgius Agricola (1494 to 1555).

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