Box 25, Folder 5: Paleontology Draft I 1853

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Illustration-Schizocrinus nodosus

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Illustration-Schizocrinus nodosus.

Schizocrimus nodosus, Hall, Pal. N.Y. Vol 1. p. 81 pl 27 fig 1.

Body cup shaped, obtusely pentagonal, spreading somewhat abruptly from the column; arms short; fingers in ten pairs, fimbriated; column round, composed of joints of unequal [size] thickness and diamter, the lower ones furnished with side arms; surface of the joints deeply striated in radii, which gives a serrated appearance to the edges of the plates- In tracing the column downward, there is a gradual increase in the number of the smaller plates between the larger ones; [the] which become nodose and are furnished with side arms,

L. (of body) 0.4 - D. 0.5 - D. of column 0.1 to 0.3