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VI. GENUS. CYATHOCRINITES. 
CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
Generic Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, with a round or pentagonal column formed of numerous 
joints, having side arms proceeding irregularly from it. On the summit ad- 
heres a saucer-shaped pelvis of five pieces, on which are placed in successive 
series, five costal plates, five scapule, and an intervening plate. From each 
scapula proceeds one arm haying two hands. 
Observation. 
The name of this genus is derived from xracos, a cup. None of its species 
have as yet been discovered in a living state, and all of them are consigned to 
the transition and Mountain Limestone strata. 
1. SPECIES. CYATHOCRINITES PLANUS. 
SMOOTH, CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAT. 
Generic Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, with a round column formed of numerous depressed 
joints, articulating by radiating surfaces, and perforated by an alimentary canal, 
pentagonal near the pelvis, which becomes round further from it. From each 
of the scapula, which rest on the summit of the cup formed by the pelvis and 
costz, proceeds an arm supporting two hands, each being provided with two 
series of fingers, 
