Rare Late Cretaceous phymosomatoid echinoids from the Hannover area (Lower Saxony, Germany)*

Gauthieria mosae is recorded for the first time from upper Campanian (Belemnitella minor/Nostoceras polyplocum Zone) strata at the Teutonia Nord quarry in the Hannover area (northwest Germany), with two specimens available. This spe-cies was previously known only from the lower upper Campanian (basiplana/spiniger Zone and higher) of the province of Liège, northeast Belgium. In addition, a specimen of Gauthieria aff. pseudoradiata, from the B. minor/N. polyplocum Zone as well at the Teutonia Nord quarry, is illustrated and discussed in an attempt to elucidate the confused taxonomy of this form