Echinoneus robustus Sanchez-Roig 1953 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae

Full reference: M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176

Belongs to Echinoneus according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953

Sister taxa: Echinoneus burgeri, Echinoneus cyclostomus, Echinoneus orbicularis, Koehleraster abnormalis

Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 747, a test. Its type locality is Arroyo Seco, Corral Concepcion, Barrio Guadalupe, Moron, which is in an Oligocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Arroyo Seco, Corral Concepcion, Barrio Guadalupe, Moron

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