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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Euechinoidea typical of the Holectypoida. They have straight, narrow ambulacra and wide interambulacra; large decagonal peristome; and pyriform periproct situated between the peristome and the posterior edge of the test. They occur in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks.
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