The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, September 2011

Verbeekia Fritsch, 1877, p. 90

[=Verbeckia Pomel, 1883, p. 35 (nomen vanum)]

Diagnostic Features	Test ovate, presence of anterior sulcus at ambitus unknown Apical disc unknown Ambulacrum III slightly depressed adapically with simple pores Petals well developed, lyre-shaped with the inner columns of pore-pairs rudimentary in the two posterior petals Lower surface flat with broad median naked zone; no tubercles on at least the anterior part of the sternal plates. Mouth at some considerable distance from the anterior Fascioles unknown.
Distribution	Eocene, Borneo
Name gender	feminine
Type	Verbeekia dubia Fritsch, 1877, p. 90 by monotypy.
Species Included	Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia, Spatangoida, Micrasterina, Loveniidae? Monotypic. Too poorly known to place with certainty but probably a Loveniidae
Remarks	Fritsch, K. v. 1877. Die Echiniden der Nummuliten-Bildungen von Borneo. Palaeontographica. Supplement 3, Lief 1, p. 85-92, pl. 13.