Echinoidea taxon details
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Diagnosis Medium size, elongate, often with pointed posterior extremity, greatest width posterior to center, rounded margin; apical system monobasal, anterior, four genital pores; petals well developed, broad, closing distally, with broad interporiferous zones, poriferous zones of same petal of same length, pores conjugate, outer pore elongate but not slit-like, ambulacral plates beyond petals single pored; periproct marginal, slightly visible from above or below, longitudinal; peristome transverse, anterior, large, subpentagonal; bourrelets well developed, vertical walled; phyllodes broad, single pored, with two or sometimes three series of pores in each half-ambulacrum; buccal pores present. [details]
Distribution Europe, Cuba, Japan, NE Iran, North Africa, Pakistan, Oman, Tibet, United Arab Emirates, Madagascar,
India, and the USA. [details]
Fossil range Upper Cretaceous (Senonian) to Miocene [details]
Morphology According to Carrasco et al. (2019: p. 5): "It is also worth noting the following observation by Kier (1962) about Gitolampas tunetana: “The figure by Cotteau (1890, pl. 246, fig. 6) of the floscelle is in error in showing double pores in the phyllodes”." [details]
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