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Tetratrabs izeensis
Description: Test as with genus, medium to large in size; central area moderately large, cortical shell with extremely large tetragonal, pentagonal, or hexagonal pore frames without nodes at vertices. Rays
wide, medium in length, tapering with short massive triradiate spines. Each ray with six rows of widely spaced external beams visible laterally. Well-preserved specimens with short bars connecting two contiguous external beams and forming large rectangular pore frames above two rows of smaller polygonal pore frames.
Remarks: Tetratrabs izeensis,n. sp., is compared with T imlayi, n. sp., under the latter species.
Year | Name and author |
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1987 | Tetratrabs izeensis Yeh |
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