Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1941. Oligopygus nancei, a new echinoid from Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 15(3):305-306
Belongs to Oligopygus according to C. W. Cooke 1941
Sister taxa: Oligopygus alvarezi, Oligopygus floridanus, Oligopygus haldermani, Oligopygus herrari, Oligopygus ovumserpentis, Oligopygus rotundus, Oligopygus sanjosephi, Oligopygus wetherbyi
Type specimen: U. S. Nat. Mus. 498964, a test (seven individuals, all imperfect). Its type locality is Headwaters of Río Amana, which is in an Eocene marine limestone in the Santa Anita Formation of Venezuela.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Headwaters of Río Amana
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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