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Genus GLYPT OCRINUS. 
[Greek, yXbtf rog, sculptured, and xpivos, a lily; in allusion to the deeply carved or sculptured plates of 
the body.] 
Character. Column round ; pelvis composed of five plates; costals in two series, with a 
single regular intercostal plate; scapulars five, with two interscapular plates; scapulars 
supporting a pair of arm-plates, which are succeeded by the hands and fingers. 
340. 1. GLYPTOCRINUS DECADACTYLUS. 
Pl. LXXVII. Figs. 1 a -f; and Pl. LXXVIII. Figs. 1 a - u. 
Body cupshaped, with ten arms, which support twenty tentaculated fingers; plates all 
marked by strong elevated radiating ridges ; pelvic plates five, pentagonal, supporting upon 
their upper oblique edges five heptagonal costal plates, which are succeeded by five 
hexagonal second costals in a direct line ; scapular plates heptagonal, resting directly upon 
the straight upper side of the second costals, and supporting on their two upper oblique 
edges two hexagonal arm-joints, which in turn support a second arm-joint, and this one two 
hexagonal hand-joints, the latter sustaining the fingers; fingers composed of a column 
of fimbriated joints, which are quadrangular below and cuneiform above; column round 
or obtusely pentagonal, varying in its character at different distances from the body. 
In addition to the regular series of plates supporting the arms and fingers, there are 
numerous intermediate ones, of which a hexagonal intercostal plate, a first pair of hexa¬ 
gonal interscapular plates, and a second pair of heptagonal interscapular plates, the latter 
truncated above, are always regular and uniform. Between these last interscapular plates, 
there is usually an irregular interscapular joint, and several pectoral plates. The number 
and arrangement of the latter does not appear to be always uniform ; but I have not been 
able to find specimens where every part could be satisfactorily examined. Between each 
pair of arms there are three or more plates, and between each pair of fingers one or more 
plates at the base. The capital plates, and their arrangement, are shown in the enlarged 
figure of the crown, fig. 1 d , pi. 77. The mouth is depressed and obscure. 
The body of this species is readily recognized by the strong radiating ridges which mark 
the surface of all the plates below the tentaculated fingers. The surface is also marked by 
five more prominent ridges, which, proceeding from the first costal plates, bifurcate on 
the scapular plate, the divisions extending to the base of each pair of fingers. In these 
characters of the surface, and in its general structure, it resembles some species of the 
Genus Actinocrinus, from which it differs in having five instead of three pelvic plates.* 
* The first notice of this fossil was given by Mr. J. G. Anthony of Cincinnati, in Silliman’s American Journal 
of Science, 1838, Vol. xxxv, p. 405. Mr. A. gives a very good figure of this beautiful species, but proposes no name, 
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