encrinite

[Gr.en=in, krinon =a lily, and suff.- ite ( Min.) (q. v.).] Paleont.: A fo il Crinoidean. These are now divided into different families, but the word encrinite is one of wide meaning comprehending them all. Thus encrinites are recognized in the Silurian (Murchison), in the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone, in the Oolite, . "We may judge," says Dr. Buck land ( Bridge water Treatise ), "of the degree to which these species multiplied, from the countle myriads of their petrified remains which compose vast strata of entrochal marble, extending over large tracts of Northern Europe and America." The species here figured is the Lily-shaped Encrinite. Encrinite. [ENCRINUS.] Pear encrinite: Palæont .: Apiocrinites rotund us. It is found in the middle region of the Oolite at Bradford, in Wilts hire; at Abbots bury, near Weymouth, England, and in France, at So is sons and Rochelle.