Etheridgella porosa Croneis and McCormack 1932 (sea cucumber)

Holothuroidea - Etheridgellidae

Full reference: C. Croneis and J. McCormack. 1932. Fossil Holothuroidea. Journal of Paleontology 6(2):111-148

Belongs to Etheridgella according to M. Deflandre-Rigaud 1962

See also Croneis and McCormack 1932, Deflandre-Rigaud 1952 and Summerson and Campbell 1958

Sister taxa: Etheridgella biconvexa, Etheridgella pentagonia

Type specimen: Its type locality is North of Bankhead highway, west of Eastland, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Graham Formation of Texas

Ecology: shallow infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at North of Bankhead highway, west of Eastland

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