The Echinoid Directory
Paleanthus Lambert, 1912, p. 89
[=Laubeanthus Lambert, 1914, p. 19 (objective) ]
| Distribution | Oligocene (Tongrian) of circum-Mediterranean region. |
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| Name gender | masculine |
| Type | Clypeaster breunigi Laube, 1868, by original designation. |
| Classification and/or Status | Clypeasteroida; Clypeasterina; Clypeasteridae. Subjective junior synonym of Clypeaster Lamarck, 1801. |
| Remarks | Closely resembling a laganid in form but with petals definitely composed of alternating full-width elements and demiplates. Lambert. T. 1912. Description des Echinides des terrains neogenes du bassin du Rhone. Fasc. 2. Memoires de la Societe paleontologique Suisse 38, , p. 49-102, pls 4-7. Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea IV.2 Clypeasteroida. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. |