Echinoidea, Yellow limestones, Olaszfalu, Eperkeshegy (Cretaceous to of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.2° N, 17.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

• Calcaires jaunes, age unclear

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, yellow limestone

Primary reference: E. Szörenyi. 1960. Echinides du Crétacé inférieur de la Hongrie. Geologica Hungarica 32:326-367 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66033: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 27.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cyathocidaris insolens n. sp. pencil urchin
Cidaris cornifera pencil urchin
 Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Pyrina hungarica n. sp. sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoides sp. Parkinson 1811 sea urchin