Echinoidea taxon details
original description
(of Acrosalenia miliaria Paris in Richardson & Paris, 1908 †) Richardson L. & Paris E. T. (1908). On the stratigraphical distribution of the Inferior-Oolite echinoids of the west of England. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalist Field Club, 18, 73-82, pl. 8. page(s): 164; 178, pl. 17: 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): 103-104; text-fig. 22G; pl. 56: figs 1-6 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis An acrosaleniid with an elongate apical disc; apical disc plates only loosely attached to corona. Ambital and adapical plates covered in a dense, fine granulation, and primary tubercles greatly reduced in size above the ambitus. Well-developed phyllodes present adorally. [details]
Fossil range Aalenian England and France [details]
Stratigraphy Inferior Oolite Group [details]
Type locality Andoversford, Gloucestershire; Chiselborough Hill, East Chinnock, Somerset, UK [details]
Type material Holotyp: NHM E74651
NHM = Natural History Museum London, UK [details]
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