The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, April 2011
Desoricidaris balli (Fourtau, 1914, p. 5)
[1914 Leiocidaris Balli Fourtau, p. 5, pl. 1, fig. 3.]
| Diagnostic Features | A species of Desoricidaris with ambulacral tuberculation consising of large granules in regular adradial series and smaller tubercles and granules alternating forming a perradial series. |
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| Distribution | Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian), Egypt. |
| Classification and/or Status | A species of Desoricidaris |
| Remarks | Redescribed by Geys (1992). Fourtau, R. 1914. Catalogue des invertebres fossiles de l'Egypte. Terrains Cretace, 1ere Partie: Echinodermes. Geological Survey of Egypt, Palaeontological Series 2, 109 pp, 8 pls. Geys,J. F. 1992. Regular echinoids, other than Hemicidaroida, from Upper Cretaceous deposits in the Wadi Qena-area (Eastern Desert, Egypt). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre 62, 139-154. |