Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Next to Ananchytes ovata, there is probably no fossil Echinoid which is so well known to geologists and so common in collections as Galerites albogalerus, Lam. Described by Lamarck, studied by Forbes, and puzzled over by almost every naturalist who has classified the Echinoidea, this common yet most variable form has received a number of synonyms, and has been made to belong to four genera besides that in which it now rests.
page 10 note 1 Character:—Test circular or pentagonal, peristome central decagonular pentagonal, periproct independent of the genital apparatus either superior or inferior. Pores simple; divided into 1, Galerites proper with teeth, and 2, Echinoninæ, without teeth.Google Scholar
page 13 note 1 Lovén, Etudes sur les Echinoidées, Stockholm, 1872.Google Scholar
page 14 note 1 Vol. xxvii.Google Scholar
page 14 note 2 Vol. i. part 6, on the Echinoconidæ.Google Scholar
page 14 note 3 p. 221 et seq. plates xlix. figs. 2, 3, 4. Plate 1. fig. 1–6.Google Scholar
page 14 note 4 p. 213 et seq.Google Scholar
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