UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS PLATE 1 8 <strong>ECHINODERMATA</strong>, ARTICLE 3 4., - - V, --,S • •n• 0 0 .. „1,, ,' 1... At ip: _A, .‘ 4 • . r •- •--1147 ... -1,M111 4,611; • ,Y11 t , reer -• , ' - — l' • . •• t,,, i - ... , ., • . . . v. ' I... 1 • ‘ 7 . \ t%:: Y% 4 • "s• . IV. .,„. • if.. .,, N, -'11111R, ... • ' ' .... . ...„. "I V1 , , .. ';• -10 v .,.., 3 et FAY-BLASTOID STUDIES
BLASTOID STUDIES 65 complete specimens, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kentucky, Lexington. Plesiotypes, S3,782, 18 specimens, Springer collection, one illustrated, showing esophageal ring; 71,650, one specimen in rock figured by BUTTS, 1926, pi. 59, fig. 3, U. S. National Museum, Washington. Genus ELAEACRINUS C. F. Roemer, 1851 [=Olivanites (TRoosr, 1849, nom. nud.) LYON, 1857; Eleacrinus ETHERIDGE & CARPENTER, 1883] Type-species, by subsequent designation (Shumard, 1863).—E/acacrinus verneuili ROEMER, 1851 (=Pentretnites verneuili TROOST, 1841, nom. nod.). Generic diagnosis.—Spiraculate blastoids with 11 openings around oral opening, consisting <strong>of</strong> ten spiracles and anus separate, approximately 18-21 oral plates, one <strong>of</strong> which may not be an oral but an exposed superdeltoid plate, with three other exposed anal plates or two cryptodeltoids and hypodeltoid, one or two anal orals between adorai tips or cryptodeltoids; lancet covered by side plates, an inner side plate present, a single pore between side plates along deltoid and radial margins; deltoids long, overlapping radials, with two hydrospire folds on each side <strong>of</strong> an ambulacrum with medium-long hydrospire canal; form <strong>of</strong> calyx ellipsoidal, longer than wide. Devonian, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri. Remarks.—The genus Elaeacrinus was probably derived from a genus related to Troosticrinus, in which the small cryptodeltoids moved outward to the exterior, crowding the hypodeltoid between them, the superdeltoid began to migrate inward, the hydrospires became reduced to two on each side <strong>of</strong> an ambulacrum due to atrophy, the deltoids migrated downward, and many small oral plates coalesced to form a few large orals (18-21). ELAEACRINUS VERNEUILI C. F. Roemer Plate 28, figures 7-10; text-figs. 120, 121 Pentremites verneuili TROOST, 1841, p. 14 (nom. nod.). Pentatrematites verneuili BRONN, 1848, p. 946 (nom. nod.). Olivanites verneuili TROOST, 1849, p. 419 (nom, nod.); typespecies <strong>of</strong> Olivanites. Elaeacrinus verneuili ROEMER, 1851, p. 379, pl. 8, figs. la-d (typespecies <strong>of</strong> Elaeacrinus). Description.—Calyx calcitic, ellipsoidal in side view, subcircular in top view, 36 mm. long by 28 mm. wide, FIGURE 120. Elaeacrinus verneuili ROEMER, Middle Devonian, Jeffersonville Limestone, Jeffersonville, Indiana (Univ. Chicago, no. 9,956); summit area, X8. [Explanation.—An, anal opening; "C," amb.; CR, cryptodeltoid; "D," amb.; HD, hypodeltoid; 0, oral plate; S, spiracle; Su, superdeltoid.] EXPLANATION OF PLATE 18 FIGURE PAGE 1-7. Sagittoblastus tvanneri (Y Axovt,Ev), metatype, 102,187 (figs. 1-3), U.S. Natl. Mus., Permian, Krasnoufimsk, Urals, Russia; 1-3, oral, "D" ambulacral, aboral views <strong>of</strong> weathered specimen (all X6.7); metatype, 695, (figs. 4-7), Illinois Geol. Survey, Permian, Krasnoufimsk, Urals, Russia; 4-6, oral, "D" ambulacral, aboral views ( X4.9); 7, detail view <strong>of</strong> "AB" deltoid showing three hydrospire slits on each side in deep concavity ( X20.6) 44 8,9. Orophocrinus sirius (WHITE), holotype, 379, Harvard Mus. Comp. Zoology; Lower Mississippian, Burlington Limestone, Burlington, Iowa; oral and aboral views showing winglike radials ( X4) 39 1 0, 11. Pterotoblastus gracilis WANNER, topotype, S4,035, Springer coll., U.S. Natl. Mus.; Permian, Basleo beds, from Tonino, Kioe Kilo, near Basle°, Timor Island, East Indies; 10, detail oral view <strong>of</strong> oral area (approximately X5.5); 11, "B" ambulacral view (approximately X2.5) 44 12. Thaumatoblastos longiramus WANNER, topotype, S4,053, Springer coll., U.S. Natl. Mus.; Permian, Basleo beds, Basleo, Timor Island, East Indies; oral view <strong>of</strong> radial fragment showing side plates (X7) 45