The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Jenna Sullivan, April 2007

Clypeaster biarritzensis var. trotteri Gregory, 1911, p. 662

Distribution Upper Eocene, in a marly imestone containing many specimens of Operculina libyca.  Ain Sciahat, Cyrene, Libya.
Type Syntype of variety Natural History Museum E11343
Species Included Species of Clypeaster
Remarks

Form and dimensions similar to those normal to the species, however the petals of ambulacra are shorter, the poriferous zones broader, and the distal ends less open [Gregory 1911].


Gregory, J.W. 1911. Conributions to the Geology of Cyrenaica. D. The fossil Echinoidea of Cyrenaica. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London: 661-679, pls 47-49.