276 CRETACEOUS PALEONTOLOGY. 



seem to remove it from that genus. In the great height of the 

 basals the species agrees with members of the genus Rhizocriniis^ 

 but that genus is described as having a thin, disk-like proximal 

 stem joint, while the New Jersey species apparently has an ex- 

 ceedingly high one in which nO' transverse divisions can be 

 detected. There seems to be no reason, however, why some lati- 

 tude may not be allowed in this character. The genus Rhiso- 

 crinus has not heretofore been reco'gnized earlier than the Eocene, 

 but there is no reason why it •should not also occur in the higher 

 Cretaceous beds. 



The species is possibly allied to Bourgtheticrinus alabamensis 

 De Loriol, a species which Carpenter thinks should be referred 

 to the genus Rhizocrinus} The New Jersey species differs from 

 that species in its much more elongate and more slender form. 



Formation and locality. — Vincentown limesand, Vincentown 



(154)- 

 Geographic distribution. — New Jersey. 



FamUy PENTAORINIDAE. 



Genus Puntacrinus Miller. 



Pentacrinus bryani Gabb. 



Plate VI., Figs. 8-g. 



1876. Pentacrinus bryani Gabb, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.,. 



1876, p. 178, pi. 5, fiigs. I, I a-b. 

 1893. Pentacrinus bryani Clark, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ, 



vol. 12, No. 103, p. 51. 

 1893. Pentacrinus bryani Clark, Bull. U. S. G. S., No. 97, p.- 



28, pi. 3, figs. 3 a-b. 

 1905. Pentacrinus bryani Johns., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.,. 



1905, p. 6. 



Description.' — Column distinctly pentagonal, composed of 

 moderately large, thick segments, whose breadth in the type 

 specimen is 6 mm., and thickness nearly i mm. Salient angles 

 of the column rounded and forming a nearly unbroken line; the 



' Challenger Reports, Vol. XL, p. 257. 



