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The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Engelia Tornquist, 1908, p. 424

Diagnostic Features
  • Apical disc unknown
  • Ambulacra with bigeminate plate compounding; each compound plate with a small primary tubercle; pore-pairs uniserial throughout
  • Tubercles perforate and non-crenulate.
Distribution Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian), Germany
Name gender feminine
Type Engelia amalthei Tornquist, 1908, p. 424, by monotypy.
Species Included Only the type species
Classification and/or Status Acroechinoidea Incertae sedis; ?Pedinoida
Remarks Tornquist (1908, p. 408) cites "Engelia amalthei Qu[enstedt] sp." as type.

If the ambulacral plating is correctly reported this taxon differs from all oher Lower Jurassic species described to date.

Tornquist, A. 1908. Die Diadematoiden des Wurttembergischen Lias. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 60, 378-430, pls 15-19