The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, June 2008

Panglyptus douvillei (Lambert, 1905, p. 573)

[= Hologlyptus douvillei Lambert, 1905, p. 573]

Diagnostic Features	Test small. Apical disc dicyclic with characteristic rim surrounding circular periproct. Ocular plates with median ridge flanked by distinct sutural pits. Ambulacra trigeminate to ambitus then simple plating but with larger tubercle on every third element. Pore-pairs uniserially arranged. Tubercles much larger on oral surface than above the ambitus.1883 Interambulacral plates with single primary tubercle; these always a little larger than the adjacent ambulacral tubercles. Tubercles worn but presumed imperforate. Epistromal ridges radiate from around the primary tubercles. No basicoronal interambulacral plate. no sphaeridial pits. Spines and lantern unknown.
Distribution	Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) of France and Tunisia.
Type	Holotype: University of Lyon Palaeontological Collections EM 12138.
Species Included
Classification and/or Status	Euechinoidea, Echinacea, Arbacioida, Glypticidae A species of Panglyptus
Remarks	Lambert & Thiery, 1914, in 1909-1925 Essai de nomenclature raisonnee des Echinides. Chaumont. Lambert, J. 1905. Echinides du sud de la Tunisie (environs de Tatahouine. Bulletin de la Societe geologique du France 4th series, 5, 569-577, pl. 22.