Rhopaloblastus cuspidus Webster and Jell 1992 (blastoid)

Blastoidea - Spiraculata - Pentremitidae

Full reference: G. D. Webster and P.A. Jell. 1992. Permian echinoderms from Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1):311-373

Belongs to Rhopaloblastus according to G. D. Webster and P.A. Jell 1992

Sister taxon: Rhopaloblastus belfordi

Type specimen: QMF21519. Its type locality is QML757, Callytharra-Byro track, which is in a Sakmarian marine horizon in the Callytharra Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at QML757, Callytharra-Byro track

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