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6 THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
specimens in the British Museum of Natural History
and others on loan, has served as basic reference material
for all subsequent text books and treatises concerned
with blastoids. Most pre-Permian genera and
species are illustrated and described in ETHERIDGE &
CARPENTER 'S paper, which contains first record of
many newly observed morphological features, such
as the double oral-esophageal ring, hydrospire plates,
and various abnormalities.
In 1908, F. A. BATHER reported the occurrence of
Permian blastoids on Timor in the Dutch East Indies,
and subsequently similar fossils have been found in
the Permian of Russia, Sicily, and New South Wales.
In a series of articles written from the early 1920's to
1940, J. WANNER described and illustrated 48 species of
blastoids belonging to 16 genera from Permian deposits
of Timor, almost all new to science.
Since 1940, I. G. REIMANN has published several
articles on Devonian blastoids and in the 1930's L. M.
CLINE published on some Devonian and Mississippian
blastoids of North America. Since then, little has
been added to our knowledge except details of stratigraphic
occurrence, as in the papers by K. JOYSEY
(1953-1959). In 1943, R. S. BASSLER & M. W. MOODEY
prepared a bibliographic index to species, in which
they recognized approximately 50 genera and 350
species. There is need for a comprehensive bibliography
and objective index to the Blastoidea, with
a stratigraphie and geographic cross index.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For aid in obtaining specimens for study I wish to
thank Dr. G. ARTHUR COOPER and Dr. PORTER KIER, Of
the U. S. National Museum, Washington; Dr. HORACE G.
RICHARDS, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia; Dr. HARRY B. WHITTINGTON, Harvard
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge,
Mass.; Dr. CLINTON F. KILFOYLE, of the University of
the State of New York, Albany; Dr. FRED HALL and Miss
CAROL HEUBUSCH, of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,
Buffalo, N. Y.; Dr. DIGBY MCLAREN, of the Geological
Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Dr. DONALD
F. SQUIRES, of the American Museum of Natural History,
New York City; Mr. IRVING G. REIMANN, Of the University
of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor; Dr. J. MARVIN
WELLER and Mr. MATTHEW H. NITECKI, Of the University
of Chicago; Dr. HAROLD W. SCOTT, of the University of
Illinois, Urbana; Mrs. Lois KENT, of the Illinois Geological
Survey, Urbana; Dr. CARLTON CONDIT, of the Illinois
State Museum, Springfield; Mr. JOHN L. CARTER, of the
University of Cincinnati; Dr. JAMES CONKIN, of the University
of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. RALPH H. KING
and Mrs. LAVON McCoRmicK, of the University of Kansas,
Lawrence; Dr. A. G. UNKLESBAY, of the University
of Missouri, Columbia; Dr. ARTHUR C. MCFARLAN, Of
the University of Kentucky, Lexington; Dr. HAROLD H.
BEAVER, of Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Texas;
Dr. LEWIS M. CLINE, of the University of Wisconsin,
Madison; Dr. T. SOERADI, of the Djawatan Geologi-
Bandung Museum, Bandung, Indonesia; Dr. M. MINATO,
of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Dr. GERHARD
REGNELL, of Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden; Dr. H. O.
FLETCHER, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.;
Prof. Dr. W. CROSS, of the Humboldt-Universi6t zu Berlin,
Berlin, Germany; Prof. Dr. H. K. ERBEN, of the
Rhein, Friedrich Wilhelms-Universitat, Bonn, Germany;
Dr. F. G. H. UBAGHS, JR., of the Technische Hogeschool,
Delft, The Netherlands; Dr. LESLIE BAIRSTOW and Trustees
of the British Museum of Natural History, London,
England; and the assistants to these persons.
Special thanks are due Dr. RAYMOND C. MOORE, of the
University of Kansas, for promoting this project and for
support of it by allocation of funds from the National
Science Foundation, and to Mrs. PATRICIA FAY, my wife,
for assistance with illustrations. Dr. CARL C. BRANSON,
Director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, kindly allowed
me a leave of absence for this study. I thank Mr.
ROY DAVIS and his assistant, Miss STORMI KRALL, of the
Oklahoma Geological Survey, for assistance with illustrations.
Abbreviations Used in Text-figures and Plates
"A" —anterior ambulacrum.
Amb —ambulacrum.
An —anispiracle or anal opening.
B —basal plate.
"B" —right anterior ambulacrum.
Bf —brachiolar facet.
Bp —brachiolar pit.
C —radial canal.
"C" —right posterior ambulacrum.
Col —columnal.
CR —cryptodeltoid plate.
D —deltoid plate.
"D" —left posterior ambulacrum.
Db —deltoid body.
Dc —deltoid crest.
Dl —deltoid lip.
Ds —deltoid septum.
—left anterior ambulacrum.
ED —epideltoid plate.
Fg —main food groove, represented by an arrow pointing toward
mouth.
H —hydrospire canal.
HD —hypodeltoid, with dashed lines where inferred and slanted
lines for facet.
HP —hydrospire plate.
Hs —hydrospire slit.