Salenia texana
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Subclass: Euechinoidea
Order: Salenioida
Family: Saleniidae
Genus: Salenia (Gray, 1825)
Species: Salenia texana (Credner, 1891)
Small, poorly preserved specimen with slight visibility of ambulacra. Prominent tubercles near the oral surface.
Specifications
| Object name | Salenia texana |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0491 |
| 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: Mesozoic Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Lower Cretaceous Age: Albian to Middle Albian to Late Albian |
| Numeric age | 106 - 103 Mya |
| Origin | Tarrant County, Texas, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- J. E. Gray. 1835. On the genera distinguishable in Echinus Lamarck. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 3:57-59