Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A. & Gallemí, J. 2014. Absurdaster, a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position. Cretaceous Research 48, 235–249., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.013 page(s): 244-245; figs 5.3-5.4, 6.3-6.4, 7.1-7.4, 8.1-8.3, 9 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis An Absurdaster species with circumflexed pores and low plates in the ambital part of the anterior paired ambulacra; ambulacrum III forming a narrow frontal notch and bearing oblique (c. 45) poresaborally; single gonoporeeachin most adapical plates of interambulacral columns 1b and 4a; posterior end flaring, with sharp margin, periproct invaginated. [details]
Etymology Referring to the country of origin. [details]
Stratigraphy Bersek Marl Formation, Lower Hauterivian, Acanthodiscus radiatus Zone. [details]
Type locality Bersek Quarry, Lábatlan, Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary (Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubian Range) [details]
Type material Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum HNHM PAL 2013.30.1. Paratypes: Hungarian Natural History Museum HNHM PAL 2013.31.1., PAL 2013.32.1., and PAL 2013.33.1. [details]
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