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Echinoidea taxon detailsMonophoraster telfordi Mooi, Martínez & Del Río, 2016 †
 887065 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:887065)
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Species
marine,
fossil only
Mooi, R., Martínez, S.A., Del Río, C.J. (2016). A new South American Miocene species of 'one-holed' sand dollar (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida: Monophorasteridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4173(1): 45-54., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.4
page(s): 48-51; Figs 3, 4A-C [details] Available for editors 
Note Shoreline deposits about 2 km south of Maqueda...
Etymology Named after Dr. Malcolm Telford, retired professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a fellow...
Etymology Named after Dr. Malcolm Telford, retired professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a fellow echinologist who shed and shared with his students much light on sand dollar feeding as well as the evolution and function of lunules. [details] Fossil range early Miocene
Fossil range early Miocene [details] Stratigraphy Chenque Formation
Stratigraphy Chenque Formation [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Monophoraster telfordi Mooi, Martínez & Del Río, 2016 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887065 on 2024-04-19
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Mooi, R., Martínez, S.A., Del Río, C.J. (2016). A new South American Miocene species of 'one-holed' sand dollar (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida: Monophorasteridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4173(1): 45-54., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.4
page(s): 48-51; Figs 3, 4A-C [details] Available for editors  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Monophoraster with an alate test yielding a test width to length ratio of approximately 1.4:1, and with the paired interambulacra barely continuous with their corresponding basicoronal, in some cases with only one of the two post-basicoronals in contact with the basicoronal. [details]Etymology Named after Dr. Malcolm Telford, retired professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a fellow echinologist who shed and shared with his students much light on sand dollar feeding as well as the evolution and function of lunules. [details] Fossil range early Miocene [details] Stratigraphy Chenque Formation [details] Type locality Shoreline deposits about 2 km south of Maqueda Point, Santa Cruz Province, southern Argentina [details] Type material Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (MACN) Holotype: MACN-Pi 5807; Paratype: MACN-Pi 5808. [details] |