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Distribution | Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of western Europe. |
Name gender | feminine |
Type | Hemipedina tuberculata Wright, 1860, by subsequent designation of Lambert & Thiery, 1910, p. 197. |
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Classification and/or Status |
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Remarks | Differs from Hemipedina in having large confluent primary interambulacral tubercles and all three elements of each compound ambulacral plate straddled by a large primary tubercle. Differs from the type species of Caenopedina, C. cubensis, only in having much larger mamelons and presumably stouter spines. |