The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, March 2008

Adelopneustes houzeaui Cotteau, 1875, p. 638

[=Pyrina houzeaui Cotteau, 1875, p. 638; =Globator houzeaui (Cotteau); Lambert & Thiery, 1921, p. 329; =Pygopyrina houzeaui (Cotteau); van der Ham 1988, p. 150.]

Diagnostic Features	Ambulacral plating simple above the ambitus and pore-pairs uniserial; pore-pairs offset in triads over oral surface. Apical disc compact, tetrabasal, with four large gonopores; genital plates 1 and 4 abut behind genital plate 2.
Distribution	Danian, western Europe.
Type	Holotype: University of Lyon Palaeontological Collections EM 12137.
Classification and/or Status	Subjective junior synonym of Adelopneustes montainvillensis (Sorignet, 1850) - see Smith & Jeffery(2000, p. 149).
Remarks	Cotteau, G. 1875. Note sur les echinides cretaces de la provence du Hainaut. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France, Serie 3 2, 638-660. Smith, A. B. & Jeffery, C. H. 2000. Maastrichtian and Palaeocene echinoids: a key to world faunas. Special Papers in Palaeontology 63, 1-404.