Echinolampas consolationis Sanchez-Roig 1953 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae

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 Echinolampas according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953

Sister taxa: Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas), Echinolampas (Cypholampas), Echinolampas (Progonolampas), Echinolampas aldrichi, Echinolampas alexandri, Echinolampas andalusiensis, Echinolampas anguillae, Echinolampas appendiculata, Echinolampas atascaderensis, Echinolampas bombos, Echinolampas brachytona, Echinolampas castroi, Echinolampas clevei, Echinolampas fraasi, Echinolampas lechoni, Echinolampas leymeriei, Echinolampas lycopersicus, Echinolampas mestrei, Echinolampas ovalis, Echinolampas ovatus, Echinolampas oviformis, Echinolampas perrieri, Echinolampas posterocrassus, Echinolampas raulini, Echinolampas semiorbis, Echinolampas tumulus, Echinolampas woodringi, Echinolampas yoshiwarai, Hypsoclypus lucae, Palaeolampas plateia, Palaeolampas alta

Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 757, a test. Its type locality is Finca "Soledad", norte de Consolacion, which is in an Eocene/Oligocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Finca "Soledad", norte de Consolacion

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