The Echinoid Directory

Paradicoptella Jeannet, in Lambert & Jeannet, 1935, p. 42

Diagnostic Features	Test small (13 mm diameter); inflated with rounded ambitus. Apical disc small; plates not preserved. Ambulacra almost as wide as interambulacra; straight; trigeminate; pore pairs uniserially arranged. Primary tubercle to each triad, lying adjacent to pore zone. remainder of plate with miliaries and granules only. Large wedge-shaped pits at triple suture points. Interambulacral plates with a pair of large wedge-shaped pits along horizontal sutures on either side of small primary tubercle. Plate appears hexagonal and just a few small secondary tubercles surround the primary. Primary tubercles small, imperforate and non-crenulate. Peristome sunken and relatively large. Spines and lantern unknown.
Distribution	Pliocene, Iles de la Sonde, Indonesia.
Name gender	feminine
Type	Paradicoptella rutteni Jeannet, in Lambert & Jeannet, 1935, p. 42, by original designation.
Species Included	Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status	Euechinoidea, Camarodonta; Temnopleuroida, Temnopleuridae. Subjective junior synonym of Temnotrema Agassiz, 1869.
Remarks	Mortensen (1943) treated this as a synonym of Temnotrema. Lambert, J. & Jeannet, A. 1935. Contribution a l'etude des Echinides tertiaires des Iles de la Sonde. Memoires de la Societe paleontologique Suisse 56, 1-62, pls 1-4. Mortensen, T. 1943. A monograph of the Echinoidea Part III.2, Camarodonta 1. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen