Procassidulus echevarriai Sanchez-Roig 1953 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida

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 Procassidulus according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953

Sister taxon: Procassidulus lapiscancri

Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 753, a test. Its type locality is Finca La Ceiba, Jatibonico, which is in an Oligocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Finca La Ceiba, Jatibonico

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