Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Stara, P., Borghi, E. & Kroh, A. (2016). Revision of the genus Mariania (Echinoidea) with the description of two new species from the Miocene of Italy. <em>Bulletin of Geosciences.</em> 91/1: 65-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1576 page(s): 79-82; Figs 2E, 4C, D, 5B, 9A–I [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A species of Mariania with moderately high profile (mean 48% TL), comparatively narrow petals, not quite reaching the ambitus in plan view, deep groove connecting the peristome and anterior margin, strongly projecting, triangular labral plate and numerous low phyllodal plates (10–12 per column) in ambulacra II and IV. [details]
Etymology In honour of the palaeontologist Giuseppe Stefanini [details]
Fossil range Upper Burdigalian to lower Langhian [details]
Stratigraphy Pantano Formation, base of the Montecuccolo member [details]
Taxonomic remark Midentified as Mariania marmorae (respectively "Hypsospatangus marmorae") in papers by Botto Micca (1896), Airaghi (1901), and Stefanini (1908, 1919). [details]
Type locality Serra dei Guidoni, near Bologna, northern Italy [details]
Type material Holotype: IGF 101719, a complete specimen. Paratypes: three complete specimens (IGF 101716, 101717 and 101718) and seven almost complete specimens (IGF 102169–102175), all from the type locality, one of them (IGF 101717) retaining some primary spines on the aboral surface. Forty-seven test fragments from the type locality.
Housed at the Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Geologia e Paleontologia, University of Firenze, Italy. [details]
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