Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
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 Oligopygus according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953
Sister taxa: Oligopygus alvarezi, Oligopygus floridanus, Oligopygus haldermani, Oligopygus nancei, Oligopygus ovumserpentis, Oligopygus rotundus, Oligopygus sanjosephi, Oligopygus wetherbyi
Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 764, a test. Its type locality is Finca "Santa Ana", Corral Concepcion, Moron, which is in an Eocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Finca "Santa Ana", Corral Concepcion, Moron
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