Astropygaulus Checchia-Rispoli 1945 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida

Full reference: G. Checchia-Rispoli. 1945. Di due nuovi generi di Echinidi del Cretaceo della Somalia. Bollettino del R. Ufficio Geologico d’Italia 68:81-90

Parent taxon: Cassiduloida according to P. M. Kier 1966

See also Kier 1962 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bothryopneutes, Calilampus, Cassidulina, Centropygus, Claviaster, Clypeanthus, Conoclypeus, Echinanthus, Eogaleropygus, Gitolampas, Harduinia, Laticlypus, Lovenilampas, Neolampadina, Ovulechinus, Platypygus, Procassidulus, Pygurostoma, Stegopygus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Astropygaulus in the database

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.