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): 82-84; Figs 2F, 4E–G, 5C, 10A–H [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A species of Mariania with low test (mean 37% TL), wide and long petals (extending to margin in aboral view), weak sulcus between peristome and margin, and short labral plate (14% TL, 1.15 times longer than wide). [details]
Etymology Dedicated to the palaeontologist Ida Comaschi Caria. [details]
Fossil range Aquitanian to early Burdigalian [details]
Stratigraphy Arenarie di Serralonga, Nurallao Formation [details]
Type locality Isili, Sardinia, Italy [details]
Type material Holotype: MDLCA 23533. Paratypes: four specimens from the type locality (MDLCA 23534, MAC PL1548, MAC PL1617, MAC PL1650), and one specimen from Ales (MAC PL1849).
MAC – Museo di Storia Naturale “Aquilegia” of Masullas, Italy
MDLCA – Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Domenico Lovisato, Cagliari University, Italy [details]
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