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Diagnostic Features
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- Test very small (13 mm); very elongate with rounded anterior and flat base.
- Apical disc closer to anterior than centre; structure unknown.
- Anterior ambulacrum apparently with simple plating.
- Paired ambulacra petaloid; petals flush and narrow; closed distally. Posterior petals longer than anterior petals.
- Periproct posterior.
- Peristome anterior.
- Oral plating unknown.
- No fascioles?
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Distribution
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Eocene (Bartonian), Italy. |
| Name gender |
feminine |
| Type |
Rovasendia canavarii Airaghi 1901, p. 214, by original designation. |
| Species Included |
Only the type species |
| Classification and/or Status |
Spatangoida, Incertae Sedis.
Monotypic.
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| Remarks |
Very poorly known taxon that is impossible to place on current knowledge.
Airaghi, 1901. Echinidi terziari del Piedmonte e della Liguria. Paleontographica Italiana 7, 218 pp
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