The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Placodiadema Duncan, 1889, p. 64

Distribution Jurassic-Cretaceous, Europe
Type No type or included species were specified by Duncan in his description
Classification and/or Status Nomen nudum (no included species).
Remarks The name was proposed as a replacement for Plesiodiadema Duncan, 1885, p. 433 (non Plesiodiadema Pomel, 1883).  As no species were included when the genus was established it is a nomen nudum.

Duncan, P. M. 1889. A revision of the genera and great groups of the Echinoidea. Journal of the Linnean Society, London 23, 1-311.