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Scytalocrinus seafieldensis sp. nov. and a rare Ureocrinus from the Carboniferous Limestones of Fife; with Notes on a Blastoid and Two Crinoids from the Carboniferous Limestones of the Clitheroe area

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James Wright
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During a recent visit to Fife I was so fortunate as to find in the Seafield Tower Limestone, on the shore at Seafield near Kirkcaldy, two rare crinoids, one of which belongs to a new species of Scytalocrinus and is described herein. The other is a specimen of Ureocrinus bockschii (Geinitz) which has part of the column and three arms attached to the cup. Although cups of this species are common at various horizons in the Scottish Carboniferous limestones, this is the first example hi this state of preservation to be recorded from rocks north of the Forth, other specimens previously noted all occurring on the Scottish border near Penton Linns in Roxburghshire (Wright, 1939–1940, Wright and Strimple, 1945).

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Geological Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , February 1948 , pp. 48 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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