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Table 5 Remains of Cyrtocrinus praenutans n. sp. from the three beds at La Pouza sampled by A. S. Gale

From: Crinoids from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian–Lower Callovian) of Ardèche, France

Type of ossicle

Number

Remarks

La Pouza 1

 Intact cups

676

With pit: 17; verrucose: 1; with top columnal: 10

 Single radials

952

(=190 cups); with pit: 6, verrucose: 4

 Radials of 2

325

(=130 cups); with pit: 18, verrucose: 1

 Radials of 3

71

(=43 cups); with pit: 1

 Topmost columnals

1,092

With pit: 17

 Columnals

3,882

With pit: 13

 Attachment discs

428

With pit: 10, with two or three pits:2

 First primibrachials

2,039

With pit: 20, verrucose: 85 (4 %)

 Second (axillary) primibrachials

6,975

With pit: 31, verrucose: 904 (13 %), 5 fused with first primibrachial (with pit extending on both ossicles: 3)

 Secundibrachials (smooth)

19,289

With pit: 32

 Secundibrachials (verrucose)

9,211

 

 Secundibrachials with proximal synostosis and distal muscular facet (with pinnule socket)

112

Verrucose: 48

 Secundibrachials (thin) with synostosis, no pinnule socket

62

(all verrucose)

La Pouza 2

 Intact cups

697

With pit: 11, verrucose: 1, with top columnal: 32

 Single radials

532

(=106 cups); with pit: 6, verrucose: 2

 Radials of 2

167

(=67 cups); with pit: 6, verrucose: 2 (smallest:width = 1.8 mm, height = 1.3 mm)

 Radials of 3

63

(=38 cups); with pit: 2

 Radials of 4

1

 

 Topmost columnals

511

With pit: 3

 Columnals

1,971

With pit: 5

 Attachment discs

313

 

 First primibrachials

760

With pit: 3, verrucose: 21, 1 fused IBr1+2 with pit

 Second (axillary) primibrachials

2,551

With pit: 11

 Secundibrachials

8,997

With pit: 6

 Secundibrachials with proximal synostosis and distal muscular facet (with pinnule socket)

51

With pit: 1

 Secundibrachials (thin) with synostosis, no pinnule socket

17

 

La Pouza 3

 Intact cups

346

With pit: 16, verrucose: 1

 Single radials

467

(=93 cups); with pit: 3; verrucose: 7

 Radials of 2

98

(=39 cups); with pit: 4; verrucose: 2

 Radials of 3

29

(=17 cups)

 Topmost columnals

211

With pit: 2

 Columnals

2,095

With pit: 12

 Attachment discs

328

 

 First primibrachials

322

With pit: 14, verrucose: 17

 Second (axillary) primibrachials

1,352

With pit: 25, fused with first primibrachial: 1 (with pit)

 Secundibrachials

7,647

With pit: 16; synostosial: 19 (4 with pinnule socket, one of them with pit)