The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andreas Kroh, July 2008

Parahemiaster Egorov, 1972, p. 60

Distribution Santonian, Late Cretaceous, Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border region, Central Asia.
Name gender masculine
Type None specifed.
Species Included Apart from even nomina nuda Egorov (1972: 60) included three species apparently previously established: Parahemiaster soluni (Shmidt), Parahemiaster akkaptschigensis (Shmidt) and Parahemiaster bobkovae (Shmidt)
Classification and/or Status Spatangoida, Hemiasterina, Hemiasteridae.

Nomen nudum.
Remarks Considered as nomen nudum, because of missing type species fixation in the original publication (ICZN Art. 13.3).

Egorov, E. V. 1972. [Stratigraphical distribution of Upper Cretaceous echinoids of Tadzhikistan]. Doklady Akademii Nauk Tadzikskoj SSR 15(5): 59-61.