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Domechinus
Classification
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Subphylum:
Echinozoa (sea urchins, holothurians, etc.)
Class:
Echinoidea
Subclass:
Euechinoidea (sand dollars) - Superorder Atelostomata
Order:
Cassiduloida
Family:
Faujasiidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Domechinus KIER, 1962, p. 141
Type Species:
*Faujasia chelonium COOKE, 1953, p. 14, OD
Images
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Fig. 397,3 *D. chelonium (Cooke), USA(Tex.), 3a-c, aboral, oral, lat., ×1.5 (98)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA(Tex.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U. Cret.(Maastricht.)
Beginning International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
72.17
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U. Cret.(Maastricht.)
Ending International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
66.04
Description
Medium-sized, highly inflated, apical system monobasal, petals broad, equal, closed, periproct marginal to inframarginal, transverse, phyllodes with two series of pores in each half-ambulacrum
References
Kier, P.M., 1962, Redescription of some Lower Carboniferous echinoids from Belgium: Inst. Royal Sci. Nat. Belgique, Bull. 38, no. 5, 12 p., 6 pl., 9 text-fig.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Subphylum:
Echinozoa (sea urchins, holothurians, etc.)
Class:
Echinoidea
Subclass:
Euechinoidea (sand dollars) - Superorder Atelostomata
Order:
Cassiduloida
Family:
Faujasiidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Domechinus KIER, 1962, p. 141
Type Species:
*Faujasia chelonium COOKE, 1953, p. 14, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 397,3 *D. chelonium (Cooke), USA(Tex.), 3a-c, aboral, oral, lat., ×1.5 (98)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA(Tex.)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U. Cret.(Maastricht.)
Beginning International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
72.17
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
U. Cret.(Maastricht.)
Ending International Stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
66.04
Description
Medium-sized, highly inflated, apical system monobasal, petals broad, equal, closed, periproct marginal to inframarginal, transverse, phyllodes with two series of pores in each half-ambulacrum
References
Kier, P.M., 1962, Redescription of some Lower Carboniferous echinoids from Belgium: Inst. Royal Sci. Nat. Belgique, Bull. 38, no. 5, 12 p., 6 pl., 9 text-fig.