The Echinoid Directory

Kongielechinus Jesionek-Szymanska, 1979, p. 284

Diagnostic Features	Test shape unknown; plating imbricate. Apical disc unknown. Ambulacral plates subovate with small pore-pair lacking peripodium; also bearing small tubercle. Interambulacral plates polygonal with multiple small tubercles; tubercles perforate with shallow areoles. Spines small, straight, hollow, without cortex. Lantern with pointed grooved teeth constructed of a biseries of thin blocks; rotulae wide.
Distribution	Devonian, Czech Republic.
Name gender	masculine
Type	Kongielechinus magnituberculatus Jesionek-Szymanska, 1979, p. 286, by original designation.
Species Included	K. multituberculatus Jesionek-Szymanska, 1979; Devonian, Czech Republic.
Classification and/or Status	Stem group Echinoidea. Monotypic; indeterminate.
Remarks	A taxon based solely on isolated elements and thus not definitely associated and difficult to compare with others. The taxon is best restricted to the type material and treated as a nomen dubium. Jesionek-Szymanska, W. 1979. Morphology and microstructure of oligolamellar teeth in Paleozoic echinoids part 1. Teeth of some early leptocentrid echinoids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 24, 265-274.