Hystrichopsydrax sandersi Guensburg 1988

Edrioasteroidea - Isorophida - Agelacrinitidae

Full reference: T. E. Guensburg. 1988. Functional Morphology, and Life Modes of Late Ordovician Edrioasteroids, Orchard Creek Shale, Southern Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 62(1):110-126

Belongs to Hystrichopsydrax according to T. E. Guensburg 1988

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PE 25565, a test. Its type locality is North end of Orchard Creek Exposure, 1.6 km north of Thebes, which is in a Richmondian shallow subtidal limestone/shale in the Orchard Creek Shale Formation of Illinois.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at North end of Orchard Creek Exposure, 1.6 km north of Thebes

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