Fill 



246 



Filicites 



VIII. g^- 



Hall 



Hall, Geology of the Fourth District of 



New York, 1843, page 

 273, fig. 125. It is^ 

 found in considerable 

 numbers at Ithaca, 

 Hector and Enfield 

 in Tompkins Co., N. 

 Y.,in Che7nung strata.. 

 At first sight it ap- 

 pears like a plant, 

 some species of Fili- 

 cites; but its uniform 

 size, the regular angle 

 at which the leaves 

 are given oiF from the 

 stipe, and the absence 

 of carbonaceous mat- 

 ter, suggest a stronger 

 resemblance to the 

 tentaculated fingers 

 of a crinoid (or coral- 

 line) animal ; or per- 

 haps that it is allied 

 to the Sertularia. 

 (Hall. 1843). Com- 

 pare Shumard's polyp 

 Plunialina, Compare 

 also certain tracks in 

 the mud made by in- 

 sects or small crusta- 

 cean animals. VIII g^ 



