Pericosmus (Victoriaster) Lambert 1920 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Paleopneustidae

Alternative spelling: Victoriaster

Full reference: J. Lambert. 1920. Sur quelques genres nouveaux d'échinides. Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Agriculture des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du Département de l’Aube 55:145-174

Parent taxon: Pericosmus according to A. G. Fischer 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Pericosmus (Pericosmus), Pericosmus aguayoi, Pericosmus altus, Pericosmus annosus, Pericosmus artemisae, Pericosmus atolladosae, Pericosmus blanquizalensis, Pericosmus borraeus, Pericosmus camagueyanus, Pericosmus crawfordi, Pericosmus cubanus, Pericosmus israelskyi, Pericosmus latus, Pericosmus mortenseni, Pericosmus roigi, Pericosmus scaevus, Pericosmus valenzuelai, Pericosmus zanolettii

Subtaxa: Victoriaster lamberti

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Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Canteras del Tejar "Consuelo" (Miocene of Cuba)

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