Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Full reference: M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176
Belongs to Agassizia according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953
Sister taxa: Agassizia alveari, Agassizia clevei, Agassizia conradi, Agassizia flexuosa, Agassizia floridiana, Agassizia inflata, Agassizia lamberti, Agassizia persica, Agassizia pinarensis, Agassizia porifera, Agassizia rimulata, Agassizia scrobiculata, Anisaster
Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 780, a test. Its type locality is Canteras de Caraballo, loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos, which is in an Eocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Canteras de Caraballo, loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos
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