V. SPECIES. PENTACRINITES TUBERCULATUS. 



TUBERCULATED FIVE-ANGLED LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 



Reference and Synonymes. 



PARKINSON'S Organic Remains, vol. n. PL. xvn. fig. 11. (la this figure no 

 tubercles are however expressed). PL. xix. fig. 2. ? 



WHITEHURST'S Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth. 

 PL. vii. fig. 1. 2. 



Locality. 

 In the Lyas at Pyrton Passage. 



This species appears to be characteristic also of a bed of rubbly lias, near 

 the top of the series constituted by that formation ; this bed may be traced 

 from the vale of Belvoir, on the borders of Rutland, along the borders of Lei- 

 cestershire, to the tunnels of the Grand Union Canal at Husband Bosworth, 

 and at Crick; thence along the confines of Warwickshire and Northampton- 

 shire, by Branston tunnel (on the Oxford Canal) and Shuckborough Park, well 

 known for the abundance of these remains. The line of the Oxford Canal con- 

 tinues in the same stratum, past Wormleighton Tunnel as far as Claydon ; (in 

 all the places mentioned it is rich in these fossils), the same bed continues to 

 range round the base of the Cotteswould Hills through Glocestershire, but its 

 course has not here been so accurately traced. 



Description. 



I have only seen the column and auxiliary side arms of this species, they 

 are larger than those of any other species, and resemble closely those of 



