The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, April 2011
Lepidechinoides hunti Cooper 1931, p. 132
| Diagnostic Features | Greater proportional width of the ambulacra compared to the interambulacra than in L. ithacensis. Four ambulacral plates abut an interambulacral plate as opposed to two to three in L. ithacensis. |
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| Distribution | Skaneateles Shales, Hamilton Group, Middle Devonian of New York State, USA |
| Type | Holotype: USNM 84218 |
| Classification and/or Status | A species of Lepidechinoides |
| Remarks | Cooper, G. A. 1931. Lepidechinoides Olsson, a genus of Devonian echinoids. Journal of Paleontology 5, 127-142. |