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VI. GENUS. CYATHOCRINITES. 

 CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 



Generic Character. 



A Crinoidal animal, with around 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 scapulae, and an intervening plate. From each 

 scapula proceeds one arm having two hands. 



Observation. 



The name of this genus is derived from KTAeoz, 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 ANIMAL. 



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 scapulae, which rest on the summit of the cup formed by the pelvis and 

 cost*, proceeds an arm supporting two hands, each being provided with two 

 series of fingers. 



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