REVISION OF PALEOZOIC STELLEROIDEA. 



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Original description. — '' (Order Ophiuridae. Family Euryales.) 

 Body circular, covered with squamiform plates; genital openings 

 in the angles of junction of the arms beneath; arms (simple) formed 

 of alternating ossicula." 



Oenoholotype. — ''Species Unica. Protaster sedgwickii. Forbes." 



Original description of P. sedgwiclii. — ''The disk is circular, and 

 shaped like that of an Ophiura. The arms are five in number, very 

 narrow, equidistant, and sunilar. 



"The upper and under surfaces of the disk were covered by small, 

 similar, more or less regular, polygonal or crescentic plates, imbri- 

 cated in scale-fashion, and having punctated surfaces. Those of 

 the under side of the 

 body are smaller and 

 more regular than 

 those of the upper. 

 The mouth is cen- 

 tral, and rather small 

 in proportion to the 

 disk. The buccal ap- 

 paratus is composed 

 of ten parts or proc- 

 esses, arranged in 

 pail's; half of each 

 springs from the 

 origin of each arm in 

 a diverging manner, 

 and meets the corre- 

 spondinghalf to form 

 a lanceolate tooth- 



FlG. 



!2.— Oral skeleton of Paljeura neglecta, much enlarged, 

 AFTER Jaekel. a, ambulacralia; od, adambulacralla. 



like projection, 

 deeply indenting the 

 cavity of the mouth. Of how many separate ossicles each of the 

 buccal processes was composed the specimen affords but very indis- 

 tinct indication. They seem to affect a slightly falcate form at their 

 extremities. The arms were composed of alternating, somewhat 

 quadrate ossicula, the sides of which were deeply indented supe- 

 riorly, in order to form spinifcrous crests. The spines were appar- 

 ently short, and not equal in length to the length of an ossicle, obtuse, 

 and few in a row. The under surfaces of the brachial ossicula were 

 not indented laterally. The central portions of the u])i)cr surfaces 

 of the brachial ossicles were hollowed out slightly, and the sutures 

 between them deeply impressed. About 12 of the brachial ossicles 

 were imbedded in the disk, and the parts of the doi-sal surface of 

 the latter, corresponding to the arms and central skeleton, do not 

 present traces of scales, a feature seen in existing Euryales. 



