Echinoidea taxon details
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Diagnosis Test thin-plated; ovate in outline. Apical disc strongly disjunct with large interambulacral plates separating bivium from trivium. Ambulacra narrow and with microscopic rudimentary pore-pairs only. Peristome small, subcircular and subcentral, with slightly inturned edges; ambulacral plating simple throughout. Plastron plating undifferentiated. Position of periproct marginal to supramarginal. Aboral surface densely covered in fine granulation with scattered small primary tubercles. [details]
Etymology From the Latin subitus, meanin unexpected [details]
Fossil range Aptian [details]
Stratigraphy Pluto Glacier Formation, Fossil Bluff Group [details]
Type locality Mount Phoebe, Mount Ariel, Fossil Bluff and Keystone Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica [details]
Type material British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
HT: BAS KG.1676.11; PT: BAS KG.2.127, KG.17.26, KG.1676.3, KG.1676.4 [details]
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