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Echinoidea taxon detailsWrightechinus lycetti (Wright, 1851) †
1339534 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1339534)
accepted
Species
Acrosalenia lycetti Wright, 1851 † · unaccepted (transferred to Wrightechinus)
Perisalenia lycetti (Wright, 1851) † · unaccepted (transferred to Wrightechinus)
marine,
fossil only
(of Acrosalenia lycetti Wright, 1851 †) Wright, T. (1851). On the Cidaridae of the Oolites, with a description of some new species of that family. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (2), 8, 241-280, pls 11-13.
page(s): 263; pl. 11, fig. 2 [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Wrightechinus lycetti (Wright, 1851) †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1339534 on 2026-09-21
Date action by
original description
(of Acrosalenia lycetti Wright, 1851 †) Wright, T. (1851). On the Cidaridae of the Oolites, with a description of some new species of that family. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (2), 8, 241-280, pls 11-13.
page(s): 263; pl. 11, fig. 2 [details] new combination reference Smith, A.B. (2016). British Jurassic Regular Echinoids. <em>Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society.</em> 170 (646): 69-176, pls 42-82. page(s): 93-96; text-figs 19,20; pl. 52: figs 1-12 [details] From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Genus or regular echinoid with a monocyclic apical disc that incorporates numerous periproctal plates. Ambulacral tubercles no more than one-third the diameter of interambulacral tubercles on ambital plates. Ambulacral plating trigeminate, compound in acrosaleniid style from ambitus adapically. Scrobicular tubercles differentiated. [details]Fossil range Lower Aalenian to Lower Bajocian, England, Aalenian of France [details] Stratigraphy Northampton Sand Formation (at type locality) [details] Type locality Stibbington, Cambridgeshire, UK [details] Type material Lectotyp: NHM E12277; Paralectotyp: NHM E12276 NHM = Natural History Museum London, UK [details] |
