New Fossils from the Kansas Coal Measures. 



Contribution from the Paleontological Laboratory No. 45. 



BY J. W. BEEDE. 



With Plates XXXII, XXXIII. 

 Oeriocrinus monticulatus. n. sp. Plate XXXII, P"ig. 2. 



Calyx basin-shaped, moderately deep, concave at base, arms 

 moderately stout, number not known, pinnules moderate!)' long. 

 Infrabasals not known, but small and nearl}' or quite covered b}' 

 the stem. Basals large, hexagonal, or perhaps pentagonal, con- 

 vex, curved inward at the base, about as high as wide, upper 

 lateral edges sometimes a little unequal on account of the unequal 

 radials, which makes some of the upper and lower lateral edges 

 unequal also. Radials somewhat unequal in size, pentagonal, the 

 upper edges beveled, about twice as wide as high, upper surface 

 faceted. Costals five, pentagonal in outline, somewhat produced 

 exteriorly but not spinous, twice as wide as high, with single facet 

 below to meet the radial and two above for the articulation of the 

 distichals. Distichals two to each costal, quadrangular to penta- 

 gonal according to the number of arms supported, apparently 

 faceted above and below. Those supporting two arms are very 

 similar in shape to the costals. There are often one or two palmers, 

 before the postpalmers begin, at the base of the arms. Arms long, 

 rather stout, number not known, but somewhere from fourteen to 

 eighteen, ten in view above three radials. They are made up of 

 two series of short, stout, interlocking, cuneiform plates, each bear- 

 ing a single, long pinnule. Pinnules composed of at least eight 

 long slender joints, slightly grooved in the inner side. Along each 

 side of the groove is a row of closely set nodes to which secondary 

 pinnules were apparently attached. The entire surface of the cup 

 and arms is covered with monticules and fine granulations. 



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