[ad. mod.L. echinita; see ECHINUS and -ITE.] A fossil echinoderm; a fossil sea-urchin. Hence Echinital a., pertaining to or resembling echinites.
[1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, IV. (1723), 203. The Bodyes which are call’d, by Naturalists, Echinitæ.]
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, II. 55. I have likewise a middle-sized petrified Echinite.
1851. Richardson, Geol., 24. The echinites.
