The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Nordenskjoeldaster Lambert, 1910, p. 9

Diagnostic Features	test small, subglobular, rounded at the front, truncated at the rear Apical disc subcentral; ethmophract with 4 gonopores Ambulacrum III superficial with microscopic pores Ambulacra subpetaloid, superficial, short and narrow, open distally. The anterior and posterior petals of different length; perradial zone between pore-pair columns very narrow Peristome reniform without labral projection Tuberculation not preserved
Distribution	Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous, Antarctic
Name gender	masculine
Type	Nordenskjoldaster antarctica Lambert, 1910, p. 10, by monotypy.
Species Included	Only the type species.
Classification and/or Status	Irregularia, Spatangoida, Hemiasterina, ?Hemiasteridae Monotypic - too poorly known to be able to place with certainty
Remarks	Lambert, J. 1910. Les echinides des iles Snow-Hill et Seymour. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, unter Leitung von Dr Otto Nordenskjöld, 3, 1–15, 1 pl.