GB3D Type Fossils

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Echinodermata

    Class Crinoidea

      Order Monobathrida

Dialutocrinus polydactylus (Miller, 1821) – See Ausich & Sevastopulo (2001): Lectotype

Dialutocrinus polydactylus (Miller, 1821) – See Wright (1955): Lectotype

Actinocrinus polydactylus (Miller, 1821) – See Gunther (1945): Syntype

Actinocrinus polydactylus (Miller, 1821) – See Gunther (1925): Syntype

Actinocrinites polydactylus Miller, 1821 – See Miller (1821): Syntype

– See Lhwyd (1699)

– See Lhwyd (1698)

Mississippian Subperiod (Carboniferous Period) (323.2 – 358.9 Ma B.P.)

AUSICH, W.I. and SEVASTOPULO, G.D. 2001. The Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) crinoids from Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), 1-136, pls 1-13. pp. 49 - 52, 53, table 13 (measurements); pl. 5, fig. 4

GUNTHER, R.T. 1925. Biological Series, Early Science in Oxford, III, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 564 pp. pp. 374 - 375; pl. opposite p. 375 (right hand specimen)

GUNTHER, R.T. 1945. Life and letters of Edward Lhwyd. Early Science in Oxford, XIV, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 76 pp., 14 pls. p. 398; pl. 5 (right hand specimen)

LHWYD, E. 1699. Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia . . . Printed for the subscribers, London, 139 pp., 23 pls. pp. 98 (epistola I),104 (epistola II); tab. 22, fig. 4; fig. on p. 130

LHWYD, E. in LISTER, M. 1698. (IV), Part of a letter from Mr. Edw. Lhwyd to Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. of the Coll. of Phys. and R. S. concerning several regularly Figured Stones lately found by him. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., 20, 279-280. pp. 269, 279; fig. 16

MILLER, J.S. 1821. A natural history of the Crinoidea, or lily-shaped animals; with observations on Asteria, Euryale, Comatula & Marsupites. C. Frost, Bristol, viii + 150 pp. p. 103; pl. i, fig. 2 A

WRIGHT, J. 1955. A Monograph on the British Carboniferous Crinoidea, part 1. Palaeontogr. Soc. (Monogr.), II , 191-254, pls XLVIII-LXIII. pp. 245 - 246; pl. LVIII, figs 2, 3