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III. SPECIES. CYATHOCRINITES RUGOSUS, 
RUGGED, CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, having a column formed of numerous joints articulating 
by striated surfaces. The different plates forming the cup-like portion sur- 
mounting the first columnar joint, externally ornamented with deep, rugged, 
angular strie. The base formed of numerous muscular fibres. 
Reference and Synonymes. 
Kworr.—Supl. 7. c. fig. 5. 
Parkinson’s Org. Remains, Vou. 11. t. 15. fig. 4. and 5. 
Locality. 
In the beds of the Transition Limestone, in Shropshire, Herefordshire, 
the Islands of Oeland and Gothland, and in Dalecarlia. 
Description. 
It is a species which grows to a very large size, showing strong marks of 
great external muscularity, P 
The Cotumn (fig. 2.) is formed of considerably compressed joints, having 
in the centre a peutapetalous passage for the alimentary canal, and articulating 
surfaces marked by radiating stria. They are alternately smaller and larger, 
having their surfaces somewhat undulated, which becomes more consmienous 
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