Contributed by Andreas Kroh, March 2008
Diagnostic Features |
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Distribution | Late Jurassic, France and Germany. |
Name gender | feminine |
Type | Cidarites interpunctata Quenstedt, 1852, p. 576, by original designation. |
Species Included | Only the type species. |
Classification and/or Status | Carinacea, Calycina, Salenioida; stem group Saleniidae. Subjective junior synonym of Pseudosalenia |
Remarks | Closely similar to Salenia and Hyposalenia, but distinguished from these two genera by having perforate interambulacral tubercles. Differing from Prosalenia and Pseudosalenia by its large apical disc without ornamentation and subcentral position of the gonopores. Vadet, A. 2000. Un Salenioida primitif dans le Kimmeridgien de l'Ain. Bulletin de la Societe Academique du Boulonnais 4(4): 93-97. |
Contributor comments: | Treated here as a junior subjective synonym of Pseudosalenia. The species is based on small individuals (15 mm test diameter) and in juveniles of Pseudosalenia the apical disc is proportionally larger. No substantial differences separate these taxa. [Andrew Smith, March 2008] |