Solanocrinus

Solanocrinus thiollieri is an extinct species of crinoids from Jura, France.^[1] Like other feather stars, Solanocrinus did not have a stem and was not attached to the ocean floor. Instead, it possessed 22 prehensile tendrils, called "cirri," which it used to grab onto rocks.

Solanocrinus Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Crinoidea
Genus:	†Solanocrinus Münster, 1839
Species:	S. thiollieri
Binomial name
Solanocrinus thiollieri Loriol, 1888

Paleontologist Perceval de Loriol named the species after geologist and paleoichthyologist Victor Thiollière in 1895.^[2]