Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A. & Gallemí, J. 2014. Absurdaster, a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position. Cretaceous Research 48, 235–249., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.013 page(s): 242-244; Figs 2, 3.1-3.4, 4.1-4.6, 5.1-5.2, 6.1-6.2 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis An Absurdaster species with rudimentary pores and large, high, hexagonal plates in the aboral and ambital part of the anterior paired ambulacra; ambulacrum III forming a wide frontal notch and bearing strongly oblique, almost vertical pores aborally; multiple gonopores in the most adapical plates of interambulacral columns 1b and 4a; posterior end without sharp margin, periproct flush or slightly sunken only. [details]
Etymology Referring to the type locality. [details]
Stratigraphy Puez Limestone Member of the Puez Formation; Upper Hauterivian “Pseudothurmannia ohmi” Zone (Pseudothurmannia mortilleti Subzone) to Lower Barremian Mountoniceras moutonianum Zone [details]
Type locality southern side of Piz de Puez, Puez-Odle-Gardenaccia Plateau, Dolomites, about 30 km northeast of Bozen, Italy [details]
Type material Holotype: Naturmuseum Südtirol STMN PZO 341 (CP172). Paratypes: Museum de Gherdëina MG P-257, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien NHMW 2011/0385/0003, 2011/0386/0027, 2011/0397/0001, 2011/0405/0007, 2011/0415/0001,
STMN PZO 325 (all from the type locality). [details]
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