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Oligocene to Recent, Indo-Pacific (India, Australia, Indonesia). Shallow water sands to shell gravels - infaunal.

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Primary interambulacral tubercles imperforate and crenulate throughout; Ambulacral plating bigeminate (two pore-pairs to each tubercle) or unigeminate (simple plating only).

Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian to Maastrichtian); western Europe. A detailed account of the group and its possible mode of life is given by Gale & Smith (1982). No other echinoid can be mistaken for this ...

More than 285 species have been assigned to this genus (Roman, 1965, p. 689). Due to the very large number of species, several attempts have been made to subdivide this genus into subgenera or ...

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Use % as a wildcard in the Associate species field to return all species in your host genus (NB - this will exclude records for which the associate species is not known). Note: it has not been ...