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The Echinoid Directory

Family Conulidae Lambert, 1911, p. 27

[ex Conulusidae Lambert, 1911; =Neoglobatoridae Endelman, 1980, p. 96]

Diagnosis	Clade of Echinoneoida with: apical disc tetrabasal; ambulacral plating pyrinoid (i.e. with every third element small and confined to the adradial margin) adorally or throughout; pore-pairs offset in triads adorally.
Range	Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) to Lower Eocene, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, Pakistan, Tibet.
Remarks	This is easily distinguished from Galeritidae by its pore-pairs being offset in triads towards the peristome. Echinoneidae differs in having strictly uniserial pore-pairs and a large, asymmetric periproct. Endelman, L. G. 1980a [New species of Neoglobator (Echinoidea, Holectypoida) from the Danian-Eocene of the south USSR]. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obschchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (Otdel Geologischeskii) 55, 93-103 [in Russian]. Lambert, J. 1911. Description des Echinides cretaces de la Belgique, principalement de ceux conserves au Musee royal de Bruxelles. II. Echinides de l'Etage Senonien. Memoires de la Musee royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 4, 1-81, 3 pls.

Diagnosis

Clade of Echinoneoida with:

apical disc tetrabasal;
ambulacral plating pyrinoid (i.e. with every third element small and confined to the adradial margin) adorally or throughout;
pore-pairs offset in triads adorally.

Range

Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) to Lower Eocene, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, Pakistan, Tibet.

Remarks

This is easily distinguished from Galeritidae by its pore-pairs being offset in triads towards the peristome. Echinoneidae differs in having strictly uniserial pore-pairs and a large, asymmetric periproct.

Endelman, L. G. 1980a [New species of Neoglobator (Echinoidea, Holectypoida) from the Danian-Eocene of the south USSR]. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obschchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (Otdel Geologischeskii) 55, 93-103 [in Russian].

Lambert, J. 1911. Description des Echinides cretaces de la Belgique, principalement de ceux conserves au Musee royal de Bruxelles. II. Echinides de l'Etage Senonien. Memoires de la Musee royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 4, 1-81, 3 pls.