Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Abdelhamid, M. A. (2014b). Revision of the echinoid genus Micropedina Cotteau, 1866 and description of a new species from the upper Cenomanian of Egypt. <em>Cretaceous Research.</em> 51: 95-111., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.05.015 page(s): 107-108; Figs. 11A-G, 12A-E [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A species of Micropedina with compound ambulacral plates composed of three included simple elements. Except for few
compound ambulcaral plates (in each half ambulacrum) close to the apical disc and close to the peristome, the pore pairs are arranged in slightly oblique triads, in which the adoral pore pair is located away from the adradial suture and the adapical one is the closest to that suture. [details]
Etymology In allusion to the simplicity of ambulacral plating, in comparison with other species of Micropedina. [details]
Fossil range upper Cenomanian [details]
Stratigraphy Galala Formation [details]
Type locality Gabal West Gharamul, Eastern Desert, Egypt. [details]
Type material Holotype: CGM.Inv.525; Paratypes: ASUGM.WBg.E.6.1-2.
ASUGM = Geological Museum, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Egypt
CGM = Cairo Geological Museum, Egypt [details]
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