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Revision of Rowley's Ordovician(?) and Silurian crinoids from Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

William I. Ausich
William I. Ausich*
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Department of Geology and Mineralogy, 125 South Oval Mall, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Abstract

Eight of the crinoids described by Rowley (1904) are redescribed and reclassified. This material is from northeastern and southeastern Missouri and was believed to include both Early Silurian and Middle Silurian material (Rowley, 1904). Reconsideration of this material changes considerably the interpretation of these fossils. All are assigned to a different genus with some assigned to a different order or subclass. Also, age assignments are clarified. Crinoids studied here that are considered to be probably Late Ordovician rather than Early Silurian are Calceocrinus alleni (previously Deltacrinus alleni), Ptychocrinus insperatus (previously Abludoglyptocrinus insperatus, Glyptocrinus insperatus, and G. insperatus var. carinatus of Rowley, 1904), Ptychocrinus pentagonus (previously Glyptocrinus insperatus var. pentagonus), Gnorimocrinus? problematicus (previously Gissocrinus? problematicus), and Glyptocrinidae genus unknown (previously Lampterocrinus? comptus). Two Middle Silurian (lower Ludlovian) crinoids that were described by Rowley are restudied, Thalamocrinus ovalis (previously Cyathocrinus? ovalis) and Clematocrinus dubius (previously Cordylocrinus? dubius).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , May 1987 , pp. 563 - 578
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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