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An aberrant species of Fibularia from Kenya and Madagascar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. G. Stephenson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs.

Summary

Echinocyamus woodi Currie from the Miocene of Kenya is reexamined and considered to be conspecific with Fibulina gracilis Tornquist and Fibularia voeltzkowi Tornquist. This echinoid is a fibularid, not a laganid.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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