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Title: A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 Parkinson, James, 1755-1824. Organic remains of a former world Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789-1847. Antediluvian phytology
Subjects: Paleontology
Publisher: London, H. G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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helimestone strata: they are siliceous casts of the interior cavities of the stems, andsmall branches of ossicula, of Encrinites. Plate XLVII. fig. 10, is a detachedspecimen of this kind. Fig. 7, is described by Mr. Pai-kinson as a piece of marble from Shropshire, in which isdiscovered a part of the pentagonal base of the Turban or Shropshire Encrinite. Fig. 8, is part of the column of the same species. These specimens belong to the RoseEncrinite (Bhodocrimis verus, of Miller). Fig. 9. The receptacle of a very remarkable form of Encrinite, called by Mr. Parkinson theCap Encrinite of Derbyshire. I can find no notice of this beautiful and uniquespecimen in the work of Miller or of subsequent authors; neither am I aware of anydata by which a relation can be estabhshed between this receptacle and the ossiculaand stems, so abundant in the carboniferous limestone of Derbyshire. See Medals of Creation for A Geological Excursion from Matlock to Middleton Moor, returning by Stonnis, p. 968. 50
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FOSSIL FAUNA. 119 PLATE L. Encrinites and Pentacrinites. The Pear Encrinite of Bradford; Mr. Paikinson.(Apiocrinus rotundus, of Miller. Parkinsoni, of Bronn.) The most generally known of the British Crinoidea, from its size, and abundance in oneparticular locality, is the • Pear Encrinite of Bradford in Wiltshire, some of the quarriesof the oolite on the heights above that picturesquely-situated town, yielding not only immensequantities of detached plates and ossicula, but also numerous examples of the receptacle,and occasionally the entire skeleton from the peduncle of the base to the extremities of the arms.The lamented Mr. Channiug Pearce, and his father (now of Percy Place, Grosvenor, Bath),when resident at Bradford, paid such unremitting attention to the collection of these fossils,that perfect specimens were obtained, exhibiting the entire structure of the originals; of thesesome fine examples are preserved in the British Museum. Sir Charles Lyell mentions a veryinteresting fa

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