Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Alternative spellings: Agassizia (Anisaster), Anisaser
Full reference: A. Pomel. 1886. Note sur deux Echinides du terrain Eocène. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 14:608-613
Parent taxon: Agassizia according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Cooke 1942, Fischer 1966, Kier 1980, Sepkoski 2002 and Villier 2011
Sister taxa: Agassizia alveari, Agassizia caobaensis, Agassizia clevei, Agassizia conradi, Agassizia flexuosa, Agassizia floridiana, Agassizia inflata, Agassizia lamberti, Agassizia persica, Agassizia pinarensis, Agassizia porifera, Agassizia rimulata, Agassizia scrobiculata
Subtaxa: Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi Agassizia (Anisaster) wilmingtonica
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Oligocene of United States (7: Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
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