Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T11:27:13.339Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Caldenocrinus gen. nov. and related Scottish Crinoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

James Wright
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The new genus here proposed is based on nine specimens. All are more or less complete crowns. The best preserved example (Plate III, figs. 1, 2, 3, 5) was previously illustrated in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. as Synerocrinus incurvus (Trautschold) (Wright, 1939–1940, pl. xi, fig. 8). Later, the discovery of another well-preserved specimen caused some doubt about this interpretation and led to further cleaning and developing not only of the first mentioned specimen, but of others in my collection. Some of these were labelled as Synerocrinus incurvus (Trautschold) or the kindred species Amphicrinus scoticus Springer. From a study of all these specimens it is now evident that we are here dealing with a crinoid which differs in certain aspects from Synerocrinus or in fact from any other described Ichthyocrinid. Two specimens previously figured as Amphicrinus scoticus Springer (Wright, 1914, pl. xix, fig. 4, 1939–1940, pl. xi, fig. 2) are now here referred to the new genus.

Type
Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , February 1946 , pp. 33 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Angelin, N. P., 1878. Iconographia crinoideorum in stratis Sueciae Siluricis fossilium, Stockholm, i, 62, pls. i–xxix.Google Scholar
Jaekel, O., 1897. Ueber einige palaeozoische Gattungen von Crinoiden, Deutsch. geol. Gesell., Zeitschr. Verh., 49, 44–48.Google Scholar
Laudon, L. R., 1937. New Occurrence of the Upper Carboniferous Crinoid Genera Amphicrinus and Synerocrinus, Journ. Paleontology, ii, No. 8, 706–8, text-figs. 1, 2.Google Scholar
Moore, R. C., and Laudon, L. R., 1941. Symbols for Crinoid Parts, Journ. Paleontology, 15, No. 4, 412–423, text-figs. 1–9.Google Scholar
Moore, R. C., and Laudon, L. R., 1943. Evolution and Classification of Palaeozoic Crinoids, Geol. Soc. America, Special Papers, No. 46, 1–153, 18 text-figs., 14 pls.Google Scholar
Moore, R. C., and Plummer, F. B., 1940. Crinoids from the Upper Carboniferous and Permian Stata in Texas, Univ. Texas Publ. 3945, 9–468, pls. i–xxi.Google Scholar
Springer, F., 1920. The Crinoidea Flexibilia, Smithson. Instil, publ. 2501, 1–486, 78 pls.Google Scholar
Strimple, H. L., 1939. A Group of Pennsylvanian Crinoids from the Vicinity of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Bull. American Palaeontology, xxiv, No. 87, 1–22, 3 pls.Google Scholar
Strimple, H. L., 1940. Four New Crinoid Species from the Wewoka Formation and Two from the Ochelata Group, Bull. American Paleontology, xxv, No. 92, 1–10, 1 pl.Google Scholar
Trautschold, H., 1867. Einige Crinoiden und andere Trierreste des jungeren Bergkalks im Gouvernement Moskau, Soc. Imp. Nat. Hist. Moscou, 40, No. 3, 1–47 pls. 1–5.Google Scholar
Trautschold, H. 1879. Die Kalkbruche von Mjatschkowa, Eine Monographie des Oberen Bergkals, Schluss, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, xiv, 101–180, pls. xii–xviii.Google Scholar
Wright, J., 1914. On the Occurrence of Crinoids in the Lower Carboniferous Limestones of Fife, Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc. x, pt. ii, 148–162, pls. xviii–xxi.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, J., 1923. Artichthyocrinus n.g., a Flexible Crinoid from the Carboniferous Limestones of Fife, Geol. Mag., lx, 481–490, text-figs. 1–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, J., 1939–1940. The Scottish Carboniferous Crinoidea, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., lx, No. 1, 1–78, pls. i–xii.Google Scholar
Wright, J., 1943. New British Carboniferous Crinoids, Geol. Mag., lxxix, 269–282, pls. ix–xii.Google Scholar