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111. SPECIES. CYATHOCRINITES RUGOSUS, 
RUGGED, CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, having a column formed of numerous joints articulating - 
by striated surfaces. The different plates forming the cup-like portion sur- 
mounting the first columnar joint, externally ornamented with deep, rugged, 
angular strie. The base formed of numerous muscular fibres. 
Reference and Synonymes. — 
Kworr.—Supl. 7. c. fig. 5. 
PARKINSONS Org. Remains, Vor. 11. t. 15. fig. 4. and 5. 
Locality. | 
In the beds of the Transition Limestone, in Shropshire, Herefordshire, 
the Islands of Oeland and Gothland, and in Dalecarlia. 
Description. 
It is a species which grows to a very large size, showing strong marks of 
great external muscularity. 
The Corumn (fig. 2.) is formed of considerably compressed joints, having 
in the centre a pentapetalous passage for the alimentary canal, and articulating 
surfaces marked by radiating strie. They are alternately smaller and larger, 
having their surfaces somewhat undulated, which becomes more conspicuous 
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