The Echinoid Directory

Infraorder Meridosternata Loven, 1883, p. 91

Diagnosis	Crown group holasteroid echinoids with: plastron meridosternous, constructed of bilaterally symmetrical and longitudinally elongate labral plate followed by a single sternal plate. Subsequent plates biserial, either opposite or alternate, or uniserial.
Range	Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) to Recent; worldwide.

Diagnosis

Crown group holasteroid echinoids with:

plastron meridosternous, constructed of bilaterally symmetrical and longitudinally elongate labral plate followed by a single sternal plate. Subsequent plates biserial, either opposite or alternate, or uniserial.

Range

Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) to Recent; worldwide.

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