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The American Geoloylst. 
October, 1895 
the second species of the g'enus from American rocks and also 
from its ch)se relation to the only European species; more- 
over it is from a much lower horizon tlian Mr. Wachsmuth's 
A. carpenter i. 
GRANATOCRINUS (Schizoblastus?) MAGNIBASIS. sp. nov. 
Figs. 11 to 1.3. Lateral, ventral and dorsal views of the type specimen, 
natural size. Fig. 14. Lateral view of a large distorted specimen, nat- 
ural size. 
Body subglobose. Interradial areas greatly depressed sa 
that the ambulacra and the bounding margins of the radial or 
fork pieces below stand out as five flattened ridges when the 
specimen is viewed from the base. Top of the body slightly 
sunken, so that it appears truncate above on a side view. 
That part of the base occupied by the column flattened. Basal 
plates form a very large pentagon, visible on a side view as 
the base is quite convex. The ambulacra do not extend to the 
