Late Oligocene - Miocene non-lunulate sand dollars of South America: Revision of abertellid taxa and descriptions of two new families, two new genera, and a new species
Author
Mooi, Rich
Author
Martínez, Sergio A.
Author
Del Río, Claudia J.
Author
Ramos, Maria Inês Feijó
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-05
4369
3
301
326
journal article
31071
10.11646/zootaxa.4369.3.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Camachoaster
n. gen.
Diagnosis.
As for the family, but with interambulacrum 5 discontinuous, the basicoronal widely separated from the first postbasicoronals by adjacent first postbasicoronal plates I and V.
Etymology.
Named in recognition of Dr. Horacio Homero Camacho (
1922-2015
), the first geologist and paleontologist to revisit the early 20th century work of H. von Ihering on Patagonian Mesozoic and Cenozoic faunas. Camacho worked and taught at the University of
Buenos Aires
for over 65 years, and was among the first to recognize the importance of the study of Patagonian echinoids in stratigraphic correlation and paleoenvironmental reconstruction.
Type species.
Camachoaster maquedensis
n. sp.