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A New Lower Carboniferous Echinoid from North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Porter M. Kier
Porter M. Kier
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

A new species of Palaeechinus, and the first certain member of that genus from North America, is described and several unusual features of its test noted. The apical disc of the specimen is extremely well preserved.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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