Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Smith, A.B. (2016). British Jurassic Regular Echinoids. <em>Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society.</em> 170 (646): 69-176, pls 42-82. page(s): 146-147; text-figs 32A, B, 33B; pl. 77: figs 1-6 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A tall species of Stomechinus with subconical profile and flat base; ambitus close to the base. Apical disc hemicyclic. Aboral interambulacral plates high with a small primary tubercle that lies far removed from both oral and apical sutures; remainder of plate with small, uniform, tertiary tubercles, widely spaced and slightly incised. Primary tubercles smallest at ambitus and increase in size adapically. Adoral interambulacral plates with three or four subequal tubercles; no secondary tubercles above ambitus. Phyllodes well developed adorally. [details]
Fossil range Lower Bajocian Laeviscula Zone [details]
Stratigraphy Ketton Freestone, which forms the upper part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone Member of the Lincolnshire Limestone Formation [details]
Type locality Squires Pit, Stamford, Lincolnshire; Wilbarston, Northamptonshire, UK [details]
Type material Holotyp: NHM 75798 (ex. Phillips collection)
NHM = Natural History Museum London, UK [details]
| |