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Lysechinus Gregory, 1897, p. 1001

Distribution	Middle Triassic (Carnian), Italy
Name gender	masculine
Type	Lysechinus incongruens Gregory, 1896, p. 1000, by original designation.
Species Included	Only the type specimen
Classification and/or Status	Not echinoderm. Based on an internal mould of a gastropod (see Kier 1977, p. 24)
Remarks	Gregory, J. W. 1897 [for 1896]. On Lysechinus, a new genus of fossil echinoderm from the Tyrolese Triassic. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896, 1000-1005, pl. 51. (published April, 1897) Kier, P. M. 1977. Triassic echinoids. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 10, 1-88.