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Barycrinus (Crinoidea) from the Lower Carboniferous of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Stephen K. Donovan  and
Cornelis J. Veltkamp
Stephen K. Donovan
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Cornelis J. Veltkamp
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, England
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Abstract

The Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) cyathocrinine cladid crinoid Barycrinus, which is common in North America, has hitherto been recognized from Britain only on the evidence of one species, Barycrinus ribblesdalensis (Wright), based on rare dorsal cups. Barycrinus sp. pluricolumnals and plurimeres are common in the Salthill Cap Beds (Chadian), Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire, but are not conspecific with B. ribblesdalensis. Salthill ossicles are never preserved as individual columnals due to the relative weakness of the intermeric versus the longitudinal ligaments.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 64 , Issue 6 , November 1990 , pp. 988 - 992
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