Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Borghi, E. & Garilli, V. (2016). A new subtropical-temperate brooding echinoid with no marsupium: the first Mediterranean and the last European Temnopleuridae from the Early Pleistocene of Italy. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 1-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2016.1184191 page(s): 12-16; Figs 5A-O, 6A-H, 7A-D [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Small temnopleuroid echinoid with wheelshaped test, flattened above and below. Apical disc always much larger than the peristome and forming up to 82% of the test diameter in the largest (adult) specimens. The first 4-6 couples of pores adorally not well separated by a wall and confluent on the inner surface of the plates. Interambulacral plates wide and low adapically, becoming narrower and taller adorally, always with a single primary tubercle. Angular pits deep, with steep edges; they are lacking adapically. Small sutural pits occur at each triple junction, also in the ambulacra. Primary tubercles surrounded by a slightly depressed areole. Low horizontal ridges at the adapical edge of both ambulacral and interambulacral plates. All tubercles finely, but distinctly, crenulate. Auricles not joined above. Buccal notches almost absent. No morphological trace of dimorphism. [details]
Etymology Dedicated to the malacologist Franco Davoli [details]
Fossil range Early Pleistocene, late Gelasian [details]
Stratigraphy Arda River section, sandy layer about 1 m below the base of the calcarenite bed and 40 m below the first occurrence of Arctica islandica. [details]
Type locality Banks of the Arda River, Castell’Arquato, Piacenza, northern Italy (44°51'19.16''N, 9°52'27.10''E) [details]
Type material Holotype: MG.1029.01. Paratypes: 5 whole specimens: MG.1029.03, MG1029.07, MG1029.08, MG.1029.09 and MG1029.11. All from the type locality. Housed at the Museo Geologico G. Cortesi of Castell’Arquato. [details]
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