Fig. 4 in Revision of the flexible crinoid genus Ammonicrinus and a new hypothesis on its life mode

Fig. 4. First illustration of the actual plate diagram and definition of genus Ammonicrinus as a lecanocrinid Flexibilia by Ubaghs (1952). A. Ammonicrinus doliiformis Wolburg, 1938a (for 1937), SMF−XXIII−165a from the "Rommersheim Formation" of the Auburg, Gerolstein, Eifel, Germany (Ubaghs 1952: 220). View of coiled mesistele (A1); view of exposed proxistele (A2) (taken from Ubaghs 1952: pl. 3: 1, 3). B. Anomalous crown of "Ammonicrinus wanneri" from the "Rommersheim Formation" of the Steineberg, N of Kerpen, Eifel, Germany (Ubaghs 1952: 220) (= holotype of A. jankei sp. nov., no. SMF−XXIII−167a) coiled by the mesistele. View of the coiled mesistele (B1) (Ubaghs 1952: pl. 1: 3); partly excavated crown (B2), showing radiating ridges on radials and one slightly lobe−like enlarged appendage that possibly could support the lateral water respectively faecal−ejection (arrow) (Ubaghs 1952: pl. 1: 4); excavated crown in lateral view (B3, B4), the second "radianal plate" respectively "supplementary plate" (see arrows) is based on an anomaly (Ubaghs 1952: pl. 2: 3, 2); plate diagram (B5), showing the two anomalous plates (arrows) (slightly modified after Ubaghs 1952: 205, fig. 1); schematic drawing of the coiled specimen (B6); reconstruction of the assumed living feeding position (B7) (Ubaghs 1952: 110, fig. 2; p. 223, fig. 5). Not to scale.