Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Abdelhamid, M. A. M. (2014a). Middle–upper Cenomanian echinoids from north Wadi Qena, North Eastern Desert, Egypt. <em>Cretaceous Research.</em> 50: 138-170., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.04.010 page(s): 155-156; Figs. 17A-C, 18A-I [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A species of Phymosoma has six columns of imperforate, crenulated primary tubercles on each interambulacral area at the ambitus. Ambulacral plates quadrigeminate below the ambitus, five-geminate at and above the ambitus, six-geminate close to the apical disc. Poriferous zones biserial at the ambitus and upwards, crowded close to the peristome. [details]
Etymology After Dr. Gamal El Qot, Faculty of Science, Benha University, who recorded similar specimen from Gabal Ekma, Southern Sinai. [details]
Fossil range upper Cenomanian [details]
Stratigraphy Galala Formation [details]
Type locality Wadi El Burga a branch of Wadi Qena, north Eastern Desert, Egypt. [details]
Type material Holotype: ASU.GM.WBg.E.7.2; Paratype: ASU.GM.WBg.E.7.3
ASU.GM. = Geological Museum, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. [details]
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