Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Phillips, G.E., Ciampaglio, C.N. & Hayes, W.E. Jr. (2008). A New Species of Faujasiid Cassiduloid (Echinoidea: Irregularia) from the Santonian-Campanian Boundary (Upper Cretaceous) in the Eastern Gulf States. <em>Southeastern Geology.</em> 46/1: 43-54. page(s): 45-48; Figs 1A, C, 2 [details] Available for editors
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Etymology The late W. E. Hayes requested this new echinoid species bear his wife’s maiden name of Saucier (Hayes 1951). [details]
Fossil range Earliest Campanian [details]
Stratigraphy uppermost portion of the Tombigbee Sand Member, Eutaw Formation [details]
Type locality Kennedy Lake (MS.13.006) in Clay County, Mississippi [details]
Type material HT: MMNS IP-37 [from Kennedy Lake (MS.13.006) in Clay County, Mississippi]; PT: MMNS IP-1619 [partial test from Plymouth Bluff (MS.44.012) on the Tombigbee River, Lowndes County, Mississippi], MMNS IP-811 [three complete tests from the Fowlkes bentonite mine (MS.48.005) near Aberdeen in nearby Monroe County.
MMNS = Mississippi Museum of Natural Science [details]
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