Antillaster sanchezi Lambert 1924 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Asterostomatidae

Belongs to Antillaster according to M. Sanchez Roig 1926

See also Kier 1984

Sister taxa: Antillaster aibeari, Antillaster arnoldi, Antillaster cartagensis, Antillaster castroi, Antillaster cubensis, Antillaster depressus, Antillaster elegans, Antillaster estenozi, Antillaster fernandezi, Antillaster flexuosus, Antillaster giganteus, Antillaster lamberti, Antillaster vaughani

Type specimen: Its type locality is "Cervantes", San José de las Lajas, which is in a Miocene/Miocene marine horizon in Cuba

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at "Cervantes", San José de las Lajas

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