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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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WRIGHTOCRINUS. Zool. A genus of Lower Carboniferous Crinoidea (1940 R. C. Moore in Denison Univ. Bulletin J. Sci. Lab. XXXV. 32).
[After James Wright (1878–1957), of Kirkcaldy, palaeontologist.]