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Ananchothuria Fossa-Mancini, 1921 † 
AphiaID: 689369

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Holasteroida incertae sedis (Order)
Status nomen dubium
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Holasteroida incertae sedis
Source  basis of record: Smith, A. B. & Kroh, A. (editor) 2011. The Echinoid Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory, available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range fossil only
Link To Echinoid Directory
Notes  Fossil range: Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) [details]

Status: Partially disarticulated fragment of an irregular echinoid (presumably a holasteroid or, possibly, a spatangoid).
supposed imbrication of the plates that Fossa-Mancini laid great stress on is probably just an outcome of the partially disassociated nature of the fossil on which this was based. As Lambert & Thiery (1920, p. 401) point out, the specimen is almost certainly an ambital fragment of two interambulacra and an ambulacrum of a holasteroid or spatangoid. It has nothing to do with the echinothurioids, contrary to Fossa-Mancini's original suggestion. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:689369
Taxonomic
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2012-09-11 20:54:35Z  created  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Ananchothuria Fossa-Mancini, 1921. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=689369 on 2013-05-24
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