The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, February 2008

Pseudodiadema orbignyanum (Cotteau, 1851, p. 145)

[Diadema orbignyanum Cotteau, 1851, p. 145.
Pseudodiadema orbignyanum Cotteau; Desor, 1856, p. 68.
Pseudodiadema orbignyanum (Cotteau); Cotteau, 1882, p. 326, pls 351 and 352]

Distribution Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian), France and Switzerland
Type University of Lyon Palaeontology collections EM40295.  Specimen figured by Cotteau 1882, pl. 351, figs 5-7.
Classification and/or Status Species of Pseudodiadema
Remarks Cotteau, G. 1882 in 1880-1885. Paleontologie francaise. Terrain Jurassiques X Echinides regulier. Masson et fil, Paris.