FOSSIL SEA-LILIES, STARFISHES, BRITTLE-STARS AND SEA-URCHINS.
=Divisions of Echinodermata.--=
The sub-kingdom of ECHINODERMATA includes the above groups comprised in
the Classes Crinoidea, Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea. Besides
these are the less important classes of the Cystidea or sac-shaped
echinoderms (of which no definite remains are recorded from Australian
rocks); the Blastoidea or bud-shaped echinoderms (of which four genera are
known from Australia); the Edrioasteroidea or sessile starfishes (unknown
in Australia); and the Holothuroidea or sea-cucumbers (represented as
fossils by the skin spicules and plates, an example of which has been
recorded from Australia).
_CRINOIDEA, or Sea-lilies._
=Crinoidea, their General Structure.--=
These often beautiful and graceful animals resemble a starfish mounted
on a stalk. They are composed of calcareous joints and plates, and are
therefore important as rock-formers. The stalk or column may be either
short or long, and is generally rooted, in the adult stage, in the mud of
the sea-floor. Fossil Crinoids were sometimes furnished with a coiled
termination, which could be entwined around such objects as the stems of
sea-weeds. The crinoid column is composed of numerous plates, and is round
or pentagonal. Upon this is fixed the calyx or cup, with its attached
arms, which serve to bring food to the mouth, situated on the upper part
of the cup. The arms are grooved, and the water, being charged with food
particles (animalcula), pours down these channels into the mouth. The
stem elevates the animal above the mud or silt of the sea-floor, thus
making it more easy for it to obtain its food supply. The stalks of
fossil Crinoids sometimes reached the enormous length of 50 feet. Their
calcareous skeleton is built upon a plan having five planes of symmetry;
this pentamerism is found throughout the crinoids, the blastoids and
the free-moving echinoderma. Crinoids range from moderately shallow-
to deep-water, and at the present day are almost restricted to abyssal
conditions. The more ancient types usually found their habitats amongst
reefs or in comparatively clear water, where there was a marked freedom
from sediment, although that was not an essential, as seen by their
numerous remains in the Australian mudstones and sandstones.
=Cambrian Crinoids.--=
The group of the Crinoidea first appears in the Upper Cambrian, and
persists to the present time. In North America the genus _Dendrocrinus_
occurs in the Cambrian and Ordovician; and some stem-joints from the Upper
Cambrian limestone of the Mount Wellington district, Victoria, may be
provisionally referred to this genus.
[Illustration: =Fig. 76.--FOSSIL CRINOIDS.=
A--(?) Pisocrinus yassensis, Eth. fil. Side of calyx. Silurian. Yass,
New South Wales.
B--(?) Pisocrinus yassensis, Eth. fil. Dorsal Surface. Silurian. N. S.
W.
C--Botryocrinus longibrachiatus, Chapm. Silurian. Flemington, Vict.
D--Helicocrinus plumosus, Chapm. Stem, distal end. Brunswick, Victoria.
E--Phialocrinus konincki, Eth. fil. Carbopermian (Up. Mar. Ser.)
Nowra, New South Wales.
F--Isocrinus australis, Moore sp. L. Cretaceous. Wollumbilla, Q'ld.
]
=Ordovician Crinoids.--=
No undoubted Crinoid remains have been found in the Australian Ordovician;
although many genera are found elsewhere in that system, chiefly
in N. America, as _Reteocrinus_, _Hybocrinus_, _Heterocrinus_ and
_Dendrocrinus_, and in Europe and North America, as _Rhodocrinus_ and
_Taxocrinus_.
=Silurian Crinoids.--=
The Silurian Crinoidea of Australia are largely represented by the
remains of the columns or stalks, which are often found in such abundance
as to constitute large masses of sub-crystalline limestone, as that of
Toongabbie, Victoria. The columns of the Crinoids do not usually possess
sufficient characters to enable the forms to be identified. There are,
however, more perfect and identifiable remains of several very interesting
generic types in the Silurian faunas as follows:--
In New South Wales _Pisocrinus_ is represented with some reservation by
(?) _P. yassensis_, found at Limestone Creek, near Yass (Fig. 76 A, B).
In Victoria, _Helicocrinus plumosus_ and _Botryocrinus longibrachiatus_
occur at Brunswick and Flemington, respectively (Fig. 76). The former is
a delicate and handsome species, having a small cup with finely pinnate
arms, which are forked once, and with a pentagonal stem coiled at the
distal end (see Frontispiece). The genus _Botryocrinus_ is found in rocks
of a similar age in North America and England. _Hapalocrinus victoriae_, a
member of the Platycrinidae, has been described from the mudstone of South
Yarra, near Melbourne. The species above mentioned are of Melbournian age,
belonging to the lower stage of the Silurian system.
=Devonian Crinoids.--=
In the Middle Devonian of Queensland, fragmentary crinoid stems are found
interbedded with the limestone of the Broken River.
Thin slices of the limestone of the same age from Buchan, Victoria, show
numerous ossicles and stem-joints of Crinoids.
Similar remains have also been recorded from the Devonian of the Kimberley
district and the Gascoyne River in Western Australia.
=Carboniferous Crinoids.--=
The Carboniferous (Star Beds) of Queensland has yielded remains of
_Actinocrinus_.
The Matai Series of New Zealand, which may be regarded as almost certainly
of Carboniferous age, contains remains of a _Cyathocrinus_, found in the
limestone of the Wairoa Gorge.
=Carbopermian Crinoids.--=
The Carbopermian (Upper Marine Series) of New South Wales yields the
interesting Crinoid having a large, globular cup, known as _Phialocrinus_;
the best known species of this genus are _P. konincki_ (Fig. 76 E) and
_P. princeps_. Beds of the same age in New South Wales, also in the Upper
Marine Series, contain the aberrant Crinoid with strongly sculptured
plates of the calyx in the decorticated condition, _Tribrachiocrinus
clarkei_.
_Poteriocrinus_ and _Platycrinus_ are, with some reservation, recorded
from the Gympie Series at Stanwell and the marine beds of the Bowen River
Coal-field respectively, both in Queensland.
In Western Australia the Carbopermian rocks of the Gascoyne River
are known to contain crinoid stems, tentatively referred to either
the Rhodocrinidae or the Actinocrinidae. There is also a species of
_Platycrinus_ known from the Gascoyne and Irwin Rivers, and from the
Kimberley District.
=Triassic Crinoids.--=
The Kaihiku Series of Nelson, New Zealand, has yielded some crinoid stems,
but the genus has not yet been determined.
=Cretaceous Crinoids.--=
In the Lower Cretaceous Limestone of Queensland, at Mitchell Downs and
Wollumbilla, a typical Crinoid, closely allied to the living _Pentacrinus_
is found, namely, _Isocrinus australis_ (Fig. 76 F).
The Upper Cretaceous opal deposits of White Cliffs in Wilcannia, New South
Wales, contain many opalised fossil remains, amongst them being _Isocrinus
australis_, already noticed as occurring in the Lower Cretaceous of
Queensland.
=Cainozoic Crinoids.--=
_Pentacrinus stellatus_ is a species founded on some deeply indented
pentagonal stem-joints found in the Oamaru Series (Miocene) at Curiosity
Shop, South Canterbury, New Zealand, and also occurring in the Chatham
Islands. This species has been identified in the Aire Coastal beds in
Victoria, of the same age. Another generic type, _Antedon_, the beautiful
"Feather Star," is frequently met with in Janjukian strata in Victoria
and South Australia, as at Batesford and Mount Gambier, represented by
the denuded crown and the ossicles of the arms of a comparatively large
species; whilst another and smaller form has been described from beds of
the same age from borings in the Victorian Mallee, under the name of _A.
protomacronema_.
_BLASTOIDEA--Bud-shaped Echinoderms._
=Distribution and Characters of Blastoidea.--=
This forms a small class which has a few representatives in the rocks
of Australia. Elsewhere they are chiefly of Devonian and Carboniferous
ages. In Australia they are confined, so far as known, to sediments of
the Carboniferous System. The animal was rooted to the sea-floor and a
jointed stem was usually present. The cup or theca, as before noted, is
bud-shaped, and consists of basal, radial and deltoid plates, the edges of
which are folded inwards into the thecal cavity, and thus the internal
organs came into contact with the incurrent water. The cup bears five
food grooves, bordered by numerous arms or brachioles, which directed the
incurrent particles into the thecal cavity.
=Carbopermian Blastoids.--=
Three genera of blastoids have been recorded from the Gympie Beds, or
Carbopermian, of the Rockhampton District of Queensland. They are,
_Mesoblastus_, _Granatocrinus_ and _Tricoelocrinus_. A similar fossil in
beds of like age, and provisionally referred to the genus _Metablastus_,
has been lately recorded from Glenwilliam, Clarence Town, New South Wales.
_ASTEROIDEA, or Starfishes._
=Characters of True Starfishes.--=
These free-moving echinoderms are usually five-sided, though sometimes
star-shaped, with numerous arms surrounding a central disc. The mouth is
central on the under side of the disc, and the anus above and near the
centre (excentric), the latter being covered by a porous plate called
the madreporite. The hydraulic system of starfishes consists of tubes
extending along the grooved arms and giving off side branches which end
in processes called podia and terminating in suckers. The podia pass
through pores in the floor plates of the grooves, and communicate within
the body with distensions called ampulla. By this means the podia serve as
feet, and can be withdrawn by the expulsion of the water in them into the
ampulla. The stout flexible covering of the starfish is strengthened by
calcareous plates and bars, owing to the presence of which they are often
preserved as fossils.
[Illustration: =Fig. 77.--FOSSIL STARFISH.=
A--Palaeaster smythi. McCoy sp. Silurian. Flemington, Victoria.
B--Urasterella selwyni, McCoy. Silurian. Kilmore, Victoria.
C--Palaeaster giganteus, Eth. fil. Carbopermian. Near Farley, New
South Wales.
D--Pentagonaster sp. Tertiary (Janjukian). Bore in Mallee, Victoria.
]
=Silurian Starfishes.--=
The oldest Australian fossil Starfishes are found in the Silurian. In
Victoria they occur in some abundance in the lower, Melbournian, series,
but appear to be absent or at all events very scarce in the upper, or
Yeringian series. The commonest genus is _Palaeaster_, of which there are
two species, _P. smythi_ (Fig. 77 A) and _P. meridionalis_, found alike in
the sandy and argillaceous strata near Melbourne. _Urasterella_ is another
genus found in the Silurian rocks near Melbourne, in which the marginal
series of plates seen in _Palaeaster_ are wanting, giving to the starfish
a slender, long-armed aspect (Fig. 77 B).
=Carbopermian Starfishes.--=
In the Lower Marine Series of the Carbopermian of New South Wales a very
large species of _Palaeaster_ occurs (_P. giganteus_), measuring 7 inches
from point to point across the disc (Fig. 77 C). Two other species of the
same genus occur in this series (_P. stutchburii_ and _P. clarkei_) the
latter also ranging into the Upper Marine Series.
=Cainozoic Starfishes.--=
No remains of true Starfishes have been recorded from Australia between
the Carbopermian and the Tertiary systems. In the Janjukian Series of
Victoria the marginal plates of a species of _Pentagonaster_ are typical
fossils. They have been recorded from Waurn Ponds, Spring Creek near
Torquay, and Batesford (Fig. 77 D). In the Mallee Bores, both marginal and
abactinal plates of this genus are found in polyzoal limestone (Miocene).
_Pentagonaster_ also occurs in the Lower Muddy Creek beds (Oligocene),
and the Upper beds of the same locality (Lower Pliocene). A species of
_Astropecten_ has been described from the Waikari River, New Zealand
(Oamaru Series).
_OPHIUROIDEA, or Brittle-stars._
=Characters of Brittle-Stars.--=
The Brittle-stars are frequently found at the present day cast up on
the fine sandy beaches of the coast. They are easily distinguished from
true starfishes by having a definite central disc, to which the arms are
attached. The arms are used for locomotion and prehension, and have their
grooves covered over with plates. The ossicles of the arms are moveable
and controlled by muscles which enable them to be used as feet. The lower
surface of the disc has a central arrangement of five rhomboidal sets of
jaws, formed of modified ossicles, called the mouth frame, whilst the
upper surface bears, between one set of arms, the madreporite or covering
plate to the water vascular system, as in starfishes.
[Illustration: =Fig. 78.--Protaster brisingoides=, Gregory.
Negative cast of the calcareous skeleton. Nat. size. Silurian Sandstone,
Flemington, Victoria.
(_Nat. Mus. Coll._)
]
=Silurian Brittle-Stars.--=
The Brittle-stars in Australia first appear in the Silurian, but
in England and Bohemia date back to the Ordovician. _Protaster_ is
the commonest genus, and is represented by _P. brisingoides_ of the
Melbournian stage of Silurian strata at Flemington (Fig. 78). It also
occurs rarely in the Yeringian beds at Yering, both Victorian localities.
A very ornamental form, _Gregoriura spryi_, occurs in the same division
of the Silurian at South Yarra. In this fossil the delicate spines
attached to the adambulacral ossicles are well preserved and form a
marginal fringe to the arm (Fig. 79). _Sturtzura_ is another Silurian
genus, found in the Wenlock of England and in the Melbournian of
Flemington, Victoria.
[Illustration: =Fig. 79.--A Brittle-Star.= (Gregoriura spryi, Chapm.)
Nat. size. From the Silurian Mudstone of South Yarra, Victoria.
(_Nat. Mus. Coll._)
]
=Cainozoic Brittle-Stars.--=
From the Victorian Cainozoic beds, in the Lower Pliocene of Grange Burn,
Hamilton, a vertebral ossicle of an ophiurian has been obtained, which has
been provisionally referred to the genus _Sigsbeia_.
_ECHINOIDEA, or Sea-urchins._
This group is an important one amongst Australian fossils, especially
those of Cainozoic age.
=Characters of Sea-urchins.--=
Echinoids are animals enclosed in a spheroidal box or test composed of
numerous calcareous plates, disposed geometrically as in the Starfishes,
along five principal lines. The test in the living condition is more or
less densely covered with spines. The mouth is on the under surface. The
anus is either on the top of the test (dorso-central), or somewhere in
the median line between the two lower ambulacra. The ambulacra ("a garden
path") are the rows of perforated plates on the upper (abactinal) surface
sometimes extending to the lower surface, through which protrude the
podia, which in Starfishes are situated in grooves on the lower surface.
=Silurian Palaeechinoids.--=
The Palaeechinoids are represented in the Silurian of Australia by
occasional plates, as at Bowning, New South Wales, and near Kilmore,
Victoria, whilst spines are not uncommon in certain Silurian limestones at
Tyer's River, Gippsland.
=Carbopermian Palaeechinoids.--=
In the Carbopermian of New South Wales, tests of _Archaeocidaris_ have
been recorded, and also a plate of the same genus in the Gympie Beds of
Rockhampton, Queensland.
=Regular Echinoids.--=
The regular Echinoids date from Permian times. They have two vertical rows
of plates for each ambulacrum and inter-ambulacrum. The mouth is on the
underside, and the anus abactinal (on the upper side) and near the centre.
[Illustration: =Fig. 80.--CAINOZOIC SEA-URCHINS.=
A--Cidaris (Leiocidaris) australiae, Duncan sp. Cainozoic (Janjukian).
Cape Otway, Victoria
B--Psammechinus woodsi, Laube. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Murray River
Cliffs, S. Australia
C--Fibularia gregata, Tate. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Aldinga, S.A.
D--Echinocyamus (Scutellina) patella, Tate sp. Cainozoic (Janjukian).
Torquay, Victoria
E--Clypeaster gippslandicus, McCoy. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Bairnsdale,
Victoria
F--Studeria elegans, Laube. sp. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Murray River
Cliffs, S. Australia.
]
=Cainozoic Regular Echinoids.--=
In Australasia they make their first appearance in strata of Tertiary age,
and some species, as _Paradoxechinus novus_, range through Balcombian
strata to Kalimnan in Victoria, or Oligocene to Lower Pliocene, but are
more typically Janjukian. _Echinus_ (_Psammechinus_) _woodsi_ (Fig. 80 B)
is common in Janjukian strata in Victoria and South Australia and occurs
sparingly in the Kalimnan. Another common form of the regular Echinoids
in Southern Australia is _Cidaris australiae_ (Fig. 80 A), ranging from
Janjukian to Kalimnan, occurring more frequently in the older series. In
New Zealand a species of _Cidaris_ (_C. striata_), is known from the
Oamaru Series at Brighton. An _Echinus_ occurs in the Oamaru Series of
Broken River, and two species of that genus in the Wanganui formation of
Shakespeare Cliff. _Temnechinus macleayana_ has been recorded from the
Cainozoic (Miocene or Pliocene) of Yule Island, Papua.
=Irregular Echinoids.--=
The irregular Echinoids are not known before the Upper Cretaceous in
Australia, and are very common in the Tertiaries. They are distinguished
by the anus (periproct) passing backward from the apex, as compared with
the regular forms, and by the elongation of the test and the loss of the
strong solid spines, which are replaced by thin, slender hair-like spines.
The animal is thus better fitted to burrow through the ooze on which it
feeds.
=Cretaceous Irregular Echinoids.--=
An interesting form, _Micraster sweeti_, is found in the Upper Cretaceous
or Desert Sandstone of Maryborough in Queensland, which reminds one of
typical European species of this genus.
=Cainozoic Irregular Echinoids.--=
Amongst the Australian Cainozoic Echinoids of the irregular type the
following may be mentioned. The little subglobular test of _Fibularia
gregata_, and _Echinocyamus_ (_Scutellina_) _patella_ (Fig. 80 C, D) are
Janjukian in age. The large _Clypeaster, C. gippslandicus_ (Fig. 80 E),
ranges from the Oligocene to Lower Pliocene in Victoria (Balcombian to
Kalimnan), and vies in size, especially in the Janjukian, with some large
species like those from Malta and Egypt. This genus includes some of the
largest known sea-urchins. The biscuit urchin, _Arachnoides (Monostychia)
australis_, is commonest in the Janjukian, but ranges from Balcombian
to Kalimnan. A common urchin from the polyzoal rock of Mt. Gambier is
_Echinolampas gambierensis_, which is also found in the Lower beds of
Muddy Creek. A typical Janjukian fossil is _Duncaniaster australiae_,
formerly thought to belong to the Cretaceous genus _Holaster_. Although
found living, the genus _Linthia_ attained its maximum development both in
size and abundance, in Janjukian or Miocene times, as seen in _L. gigas_
(having a length of 7-1/2 inches) and _L. mooraboolensis_. _Echinoneus
dennanti_ is restricted to the Janjukian. Several species of _Eupatagus_
occur in the Cainozoic or Tertiary beds of South Australia, Victoria and
New Zealand; _Lovenia forbesi_ (Fig. 81 C) is common in the Janjukian to
Kalimnan, both in Victoria and South Australia. In the latter State also
occur the following genera:--_Studeria_, _Cassidulus_, _Echinolampas_,
_Plesiolampas_, _Linthia_, _Schizaster_ and _Brissopsis_. In New
Zealand the following Cainozoic genera, amongst others of the irregular
sea-urchins, may be cited:--_Hemipatagus_, _Brissopsis_, _Hemiaster_, and
_Schizaster_ (Fig. 81).
[Illustration: =Fig. 81--CAINOZOIC SEA-URCHINS.=
A--Hemiaster planedeclivis, Gregory. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Morgan, S.
Australia
B--Schizaster sphenoides, T. S. Hall. Cainozoic (Barwonian).
Sherbrooke River, Victoria
C--Lovenia forbesi, T. Woods sp. Cainozoic (Janjukian). Murray River
Cliffs, S. Australia
]
A clypeastroid, _Peronella decagonalis_ has been described from the (?)
Lower Pliocene of Papua.
=Cainozoic Holothuroidea.--=
The _HOLOTHUROIDEA_ (Sea-Cucumbers) are represented in Australian deposits
by a unique example of a dermal spicule of wheel-like form, referred to
_Chiridota_, obtained from the Cainozoic (Janjukian) beds of Torquay. This
genus is also known from the "calcaire grossier" or Middle Eocene of the
Paris Basin, and is found living in all parts of the world.
* * * * *
COMMON OR CHARACTERISTIC FOSSILS OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER.
CRINOIDS.
(?) _Pisocrinus yassensis_, Eth. fil. Silurian: New South Wales.
_Helicocrinus plumosus_, Chapman. Silurian: Victoria.
_Botryocrinus longibrachiatus_, Chapm. Silurian: Victoria.
_Hapalocrinus victoriae_, Bather. Silurian: Victoria.
_Actinocrinus_ sp. Carboniferous: Queensland.
_Cyathocrinus_ sp. Carboniferous: New Zealand.
_Phialocrinus konincki_, Clarke sp. Carbopermian: New South Wales.
_Phialocrinus princeps_, Eth. fil. Carbopermian: New South Wales.
_Tribrachiocrinus clarkei_, McCoy. Carbopermian: New South Wales.
(?) _Platycrinus_ sp. Carbopermian: Queensland.
_Platycrinus_ sp. Carbopermian: W. Australia.
_Isocrinus australis_, Moore sp. Cretaceous: Queensland.
_Pentacrinus stellatus_, Hutton. Miocene: New Zealand, Chatham Ids.
and Victoria.
_Antedon protomacronema_, Chapman. Miocene: Victoria (deep borings).
BLASTOIDS.
(?) _Mesoblastus australis_, Eth. fil. Carbopermian: Queensland.
STARFISHES.
_Palaeaster smythi_, McCoy. Silurian: Victoria.
_Palaeaster meridionalis_, Eth. fil. Silurian: Victoria.
_Urasterella selwyni_, McCoy. Silurian: Victoria.
_Palaeaster giganteus_, Eth. fil. Carbopermian (L. Mar. Ser.): New
South Wales.
_Palaeaster clarkei_, de Koninck. Carbopermian (L. and Up. Mar. Ser.):
New South Wales.
_Pentagonaster_ sp. Miocene: Victoria.
_Astropecten_ sp. Miocene: New Zealand.
BRITTLE-STARS.
_Protaster brisingoides_, Gregory. Silurian: Victoria.
_Gregoriura spryi_, Chapman. Silurian: Victoria.
_Sturtzura leptosomoides_, Chapman. Silurian: Victoria.
(?) _Sigsbeia_ sp. Lower Pliocene: Victoria.
ECHINOIDS.
_Palaeechinus_ sp. Silurian: Victoria.
(?) _Archaeocidaris selwyni_, Eth. fil. Carbopermian: New South Wales.
_Micraster sweeti_, Eth. fil. Cretaceous: Queensland.
_Cidaris (Leiocidaris) australiae_, Duncan. Miocene and Lower
Pliocene: Victoria and S. Australia.
_Cidaris striata_, Hutton. Miocene: New Zealand.
_Echinus (Psammechinus) woodsi_, Laube sp. Miocene and L. Pliocene:
Victoria and S. Australia.
_Temnechinus macleayana_, T. Woods. Cainozoic (? Lower Pliocene):
Papua.
_Fibularia gregata_, Tate. Miocene: Victoria and S. Australia.
_Echinocyamus (Scutellina) patella_, Tate sp. Oligocene to Miocene:
Victoria and S. Australia.
_Clypeaster gippslandicus_, McCoy. Oligocene to L. Pliocene: Victoria.
_Arachnoides (Monostychia) australis_, Laube sp. Oligocene to L.
Pliocene: Victoria and S. Australia.
_Echinoneus dennanti_, Hall. Miocene: Victoria.
_Duncaniaster australiae_, Duncan sp. Miocene: Victoria.
_Lovenia forbesi_, T. Woods sp. Miocene and L. Pliocene: Victoria and
S. Australia.
_Hemiaster planedeclivis_, Gregory. Miocene: Victoria.
HOLOTHURIAN.
_Chiridota_ sp. Miocene: Victoria.
* * * * *
LITERATURE.
CRINOIDS.
Silurian.--Etheridge, R. jnr. Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. V. No. 5, 1904,
pp. 287-292 (_Pisocrinus_). Bather, F. A. Geol. Mag., Dec.
XV. vol. IV. 1897, pp. 337-345 (_Hapalocrinus_). Chapman, F.
Proc. R. Soc. Vict., vol. XV. (N.S.), pt. II. 1903, pp. 107-109
(_Helicocrinus_ and _Botryocrinus_). Bather, F. A. Ottawa Nat.,
vol. XX. No. 5, 1906, pp. 97, 98.
Carboniferous and Carbopermian.--De Koninck, L. G. Mem. Geol. Surv.
New South Wales, Pal. No. 6, 1898, pp. 121-126. Etheridge, R.
jnr., in Geol. and Pal. Queensland, 1892, pp. 207-219. Idem, Mem.
Geol. Surv. New South Wales, Pal. No. 5, 1892, pp. 75-119.
Cretaceous.--Moore, C. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. XXVI. 1870, p.
243. Etheridge, R. jnr., in Geol. and Pal. Queensland, 1892, p.
439 (_Isocrinus_).
Cainozoic.--Hutton, F. W. Cat. Tert. Moll. and Ech. of New Zealand,
1873, p. 38.
BLASTOIDS.
Carbopermian.--Etheridge, R. jnr., in Geol. and Pal. Queensland, 1892,
pp. 210-213. Taylor, T. G. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales,
1908, pp. 54-59 (_? Metablastus_).
STARFISHES.
Silurian.--McCoy, F. Prod. Pal. Vict., Dec. I., 1874, pp. 41-43.
Etheridge, R. jnr. Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. I., No. 10, 1891, pp.
199, 200.
Carboniferous and Carbopermian.--Etheridge, R. jnr. Mem. Geol. Surv.
New South Wales, Pal. No. 5, pt. 2, 1892, pp. 70-75. De Koninck,
L. G. Ibid., Pal. No. 6, 1898, p. 127.
Cainozoic.--Hall, T. S. Proc. R. Soc., Vict., vol. XV. (N.S.), pt.
I. 1902, pp. 81, 82 (_Pentagonaster_). Hutton, F. W. Cat. Tert.
Moll, and Ech. New Zealand, 1873, p. 38.
BRITTLE-STARS.
Silurian.--Gregory, J. W. Geol. Mag., Dec. III. vol. VI. 1889, pp.
24-27. Chapman, F. Proc. R. Soc. Vict., vol. XIX. (N.S.), pt. II.
1907, pp. 21-27.
Cainozoic.--Hall, T. S. Proc. R. Soc. Vict., vol. XV. (N.S.), pt. I.
1902, p. 82 (cf. _Sigsbeia_).
ECHINOIDS.
Silurian.--Chapman, F. Rec. Geol. Surv. Vict., vol. II. pt. 1, 1907,
pp. 77, 78.
Carbopermian.--Etheridge, R. jnr. Mem. Geol. Surv. New South Wales,
Pal. No. 5, pt. 2, 1892, pp. 67-69.
Cretaceous.--Etheridge, R. jnr., in Geol. and Pal. Queensland, 1892,
pp. 559, 560.
Cainozoic.--T. Woods. Trans. Adelaide Phil. Soc., 1867. Laube, G. C.
Sitz, k. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. LIX. 1869, pp. 183-198. Hutton,
F. W. Cat. Tert. Moll, and Ech. New Zealand, 1873, pp. 38-43.
Duncan, P. M. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. XXXIII. 1877, pp.
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