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Family Glyphopneustidae Smith & Wright, 1993, p. 210

Diagnosis Echinacea with:
  • apical disc dicyclic with small smooth-edged periproct; ring of perianal tubercles present on genital plates;
  • ambulacral plate compounding of triads in goniopygid style;
  • sphaeridial pits present below the ambitus on every demiplate adjacent to pore-pair;
  • tubercles imperforate and non-crenulate
Range Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Maastrichtian), North Africa and Arabian Peninsula
Type Glyphopneustes Pomel, 1883
Species Included Smith & Wright (1993) also included Arbia, which is here treated as a member of the Arbaciidae
Classification and/or Status Euechinoidea, Acroechinoidea, Carinacea, Echinacea incertae sedis
Remarks Smith, A. B. 1995. Late Campanian- Maastrichtian echinoids from the United Arab Emirates - Oman Borders Region. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology Series) 51(2), 121-240.

Smith, A. B. & Wright, C. W. 1993. British Cretaceous echinoids. Part 3, Stirodonta 2 (Hemicidaroida, Arbacioida and Phymosomatoida, part 1). Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 147 (593): 199-267, pls 73-92.