Diagnosis | Clade of Echinacea with:
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Range | Cretaceous, Europe, North America, Middle East, North Africa. |
Type | Pedinopsis |
Classification and/or Status | Carinacea, stem group Echinacea, |
Remarks | Closely resembling certain arbaciids but differing from them in having perforate and crenulate tubercles. Emiratiidae have perforate tubercles but differ in having a monocyclic apical disc, whose inner edge is notched by periproctal plates. Emiratiidae also differ in having simple diadematid plate compounding. |