The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, September 2011
Tournoueraster Lambert, in Lambert & Thiery 1914, p. 294
| Diagnostic Features | Ovate with 10 indentations to the margin. Periproct closer to the peristome than in Runa (from Lambert & Thiery 1914). |
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| Distribution | Oligocene (Tongrian), France |
| Name gender | masculine |
| Type | Scutella decemfissus DesMoulins, 1835, p. 232, by original designation. |
| Species Included | Only the type species. |
| Classification and/or Status | Irregularia, Clypeasteroida Nomen dubium, species based on an internal mould of a clypeasteroid of unknown affinity |
| Remarks | See discussion in Mortensen (1948, p. 168) Lambert, J. & Thiery, P. 1914, in 1909-1925. Essai de nomenclature raisonnee d'echinides. Chaumont. Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV. 2. Clypeastroidea. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. |