Periarchus lyelli
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Subclass: Euechinoidea
Order: Clypeasteroida
Family: Protoscutellidae
Genus: Periarchus (Conrad, 1866)
Species: Periachus lyelli (Conrad, 1834)
Specimen with aboral face well preserved with mostly intact petalodium with five visible petalloids and apical system.
Specifications
| Object name | Periarchus lyelli |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0414 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Echinozoa Class: Echinoidea Subclass: Euechinoidea |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Cenozoic Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene Age: Late Eocene |
| Numeric age | 35 Mya |
| Origin | Marrol Hole, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | Yes |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- T. A. Conrad. 1866. Check list of the invertebrate fossils of North America: Eocene and Oligocene. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 7:1-41