The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Palechinus Tornquist, 1897, p. 735

Distribution Carboniferous, Ireland
Classification and/or Status Nomen vanum for Palaechinus M'Coy but made in reference to a figure of Lovenechinus lacazei (Julien) according to Jackson, 1912.
Remarks Tournquist, A. 1897. Das fossilfuhrende Untercarbon am ostlichen Rossbergmassiv in den Sudvogensen. III. Beschreibung den Echiniden-Fauna. Abhandlungen der Geologische Special Karte Elsass-Lothringen 5, 723-801, pls 20-22.

Jackson, R.T. 1912. Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Palaeozoic species. Memoirs of he Boston Society of Natural History 7, 491 pp, 79 pls.