The Echinoid Directory

Cluniaster Jeannet, 1934, p. 6

Diagnostic Features	Test ovoid to subglobular. Apical disc central; plating unknown. Ambulacra straight and narrow; pore-pairs uniserial aborally and possibly throughout. Plating unknown. Interambulacra wide. Peristome central, a little sunken; subcircular. Periproct larger than peristome; marginal in position; longitudinal.
Distribution	Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian), Switzerland.
Name gender	masculine
Type	Cluneaster rhenanus Jeannet, 1934, p. 6, by original designation.
Species Included	Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia; Echinoneoida, Conulidae. ?Subjective junior synonym of Globator Agassiz, in Desor, 1842
Remarks	Genus based on an internal mould of a deformed individual. The supposed plating reported by Jeannet is highly anomolous and appears to be simply an artefact of preservation. Consequently there are no grounds for separating this from Globator. Jeannet, A. 1934. Sur quelques Echinides neocomiens du Vorarlberg. Memoires de la Societe Paleontologique Suisse 54, 1-7, 1 pl.