. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 176 RADIATA. No. 916. Dorycrinus Mississippiensis, Roemer. An Actinocrinoid, according to Shumard. This specimen, showing the body with five arms surrounding the central proboscis, is from the Keokuk limestone (Carboniferous), Warsaw, 111. Price, $ No. 917 Encriims liliiformis, Schiotb. Body and stem, on slab. This beautiful and well known Crinoid has a smooth body in the form of a depressed vase. Its base is composed of five plates, upon which rest three
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 176 RADIATA. No. 916. Dorycrinus Mississippiensis, Roemer. An Actinocrinoid, according to Shumard. This specimen, showing the body with five arms surrounding the central proboscis, is from the Keokuk limestone (Carboniferous), Warsaw, 111. Price, $ No. 917 Encriims liliiformis, Schiotb. Body and stem, on slab. This beautiful and well known Crinoid has a smooth body in the form of a depressed vase. Its base is composed of five plates, upon which rest three suc- cessive series of other plates, with the uppermost of which the arms articulate The stem is long and formed of numer- ous perforated round ossicles, articulated to each other by radiated grooved surfaces, and becoming somewhat pentangu- lar and alternately larger and smaller towards the summit. This specimen was found in the Muschelkalk (Middle Trias) of Brunswick, Germany, and is now in the Ward Museum of the University of Rochester. Size, 8x2. Price, $ No. 918. Encrinus liliiformis, Schioth. Body. Prom the same locality and Cabinet as the preceding Price, $ No. 919. Encrinus liliiformis, Schioth. This specimen, one of the finest ever discovered, is a slab containing seven bodies and stems. It is from the same locality as the preceding, and is now in the private Geological Cabinet of Mr. Ward, Rochester. Size, 17 x 9. Price, $ No. 920. Encrinus liliiformis, Schioth. Slab with three bodies and stems. From the same locality and Cabinet as the preceding. Size, 18 x 9. Price, $ No. 921. Eucalyptocrinus crassus, Hall. This genus, created by Goldfuss, is characterized by an ovoid and very com- plicated body ; five hexagonal pelvic plates, succeeded by the same number of quadrangular costal plates and pentagonal scapular plates,—each scapular plate supporting a pair of arm-joints. The column is round, composed of thicker and thinner joints alternating. Thi
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