APPENDIX E. 



PALAEONTOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES OF CARBONIFEROUS AND CRE- 

 TACEOUS FOSSILS COLLECTED : BY B. F. SHUMARD, M. D. 



FOSSILS OF THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM. 



CRINOIDEA. 



Cyathocrinus granuliferus, Yandell and Shum., mss. 

 Paleontology, PI. — , fig. — . 



The collection contains a single pentagonal plate of this beautiful 

 encrinite, a perfect specimen of which we found several years since in 

 the superior carboniferous strata near the summit of Muldrow's Hill, in 

 Kentucky. The costal plate from Arkansas exhibits granules regularly 

 dispersed in rows over the surface, which radiate from the centre to the 

 sides of the pentagon. 



It occurs in Washington county, Arkansas, in grayish earthy lime- 

 stone, associated with Productus punctatus, Terebratula subtilita, and 

 Spirifer striatus. 



Agassizocrinus dactyliformis, Troost, mss. 



Paleontology, PI. 1, fig. 7. 



Cup conical, composed of three series of pieces; plates massive, 

 smooth, moderately convex ; column none ; pelvis composed of five 

 pieces, quadrangular, greatest width near the upper edges ; second series 

 of pieces five, pentagonal, length and breadth about equal ; length of 

 pelvis three lines, greatest width five lines ; length and breadth of second 

 series of pieces about three lines. 



