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Il. SPECIES. PENTACRINITES SUBANGULARIS. 
SUBROTUND FIVE ANGLED LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal having a column formed of numerous slightly pen- 
tagonal joints, alternately thicker and thinner, articulating by surfaces with 
pentapetalous semistriated markings, each petal being ovate, surrounded by 
an elevated ridge; five round auxiliary side arms proceeding at intervals from 
the thicker joints, and alternately approaching the opposite sides of the space 
between the angles of the column, so as to form double series. Pelvis, first 
and seeond costal, and scapule in successive series formed of five joints ; from 
which ten arms proceed, having two hands provided with numerous fingers, 
amounting in each if the animal is fully grown, to about sixteen. 
Reference and Synonymes. 
PARKINSON'S Ore. Rem. vol. 11. Pr. x111. fig. 48. to 51. and 60. 
Kxorr.—Recueil de Monumens, Supl. t. 11. c. 
Briefe aus Der ات‎ ል. im Jare 1763. t. 2. fig. h. and t, 6. 
2 y. 
InLyas—at Lyme, in Dorsetshire. In black 511195. in the ٢٢ of Wur- 
tenburg, in Germany. 
Description. 
The CoLUMN (Pr. 11. fig. 1, to 3.) of this animal is formed of alternately 
£hicker and thinner joints. Each of the five petal-like markings on the surface, 
has a subovate torm, and is surrounded by an elevated ridge, fendering the ex- 
terior circumference subrotund. 
AuxipARY SIDE Arms. (Pr. 11. fig. 1.) In a specimen in my possession, 
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