Barnumia browni Cooke 1953 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44

Belongs to Barnumia according to C. W. Cooke 1953

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 108407. Its type locality is Santa Amelia, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in Guatemala.

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Santa Amelia

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