The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011
Perisalenia lamarckii Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846, p. 338.
[Acrosalenia lamarckii Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Acrosalenia wiltonii Wright, 1851
Acrosalenia pustulata Wright, 1858]
| Diagnostic Features | The small size and adradial position of ambulacral tubercles at the ambitus and aborally distinguishes this species. |
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| Distribution | Bathonian, Western Europe. |
| Type | Lectotype: EM12021, Michelin Collection Ecole des Mines, Paris, the original of R46 cited by Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846, p. 338. |
| Classification and/or Status | A species of Perisalenia |
| Remarks | See Smith (2016) for a recent discussion of this species and its synonyms. Smith, A. B. 2016. British Cretaceous regular echinoids. Part 2 Carinacea. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society (no. 646), pp. 69-176, pls 42-82. |