A new echinoid from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Kent

3 3 Fri, 01/01/1960 - 12:00 December 260 264

CASEY, R. 1960. A new echinoid from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Kent. Palaeontology, 3, 3, 260–264.

Raymond Casey Holaster cantianus sp. nov. is a large holasterid of Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) age and is found in the Lower Greensand (Folkestone Beds) of the Folkestone neighbourhood of Kent. It is designated type species of a new subgenus, Labrotaxis, to which is also referred the Upper Albian-Cenomanian Holaster latissimus J. L. R. Agassiz. The diagnostic feature of Labrotaxis is the primitive condition of the meridosternous plastron. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)