236 Triassic Echinoderms of Bakony. 
Relations of the species. — Although our specimen comes from a 
bed said to be at a lower horizon than the Cardita-Oolith, and although it is rather 
larger than the holotype, there can be little doubt as to its specific identity there- 
with. The holotype is relatively shorter than our specimen. 
Closely similar oculars are, according to W6usrmann, found in the Rhaetic of 
Kothalpe. 
From the large size of the holotype, which is exceeded by our specimen, 
Wourmann concludes that the animal attained the size of the recent Astropecten 
aurantiacus. The marginals figured by him are, however, small in proportion to 
the ocular, and so great a size cannot be inferred from the latter ossicle alone. 
In the Kimmeridgian Astropecten elegans E. Fraas (1886), for instance, the ocular 
is quite as large as the holotype of A. Pichleri, but R is only 35 mm. 
There is, of course, no particular reason why these ossicles should be referred 
to Astropecten, but, till further evidence is forthcoming, this name will serve as 
well as another. 
This completes the Systematic Description of the Triassic Echinoderms of 
Bakony. The results obtained are analysed in the following Tables. 
