Paraster pinarensis Sanchez-Roig 1953 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae

Alternative combination: Schizaster pinarensis

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 Paraster according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953

See also Kier 1984

Sister taxa: Paraster armiger, Paraster delgadoi, Paraster eustatii, Paraster joannisboehmi, Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus, Schizaster (Paraster) delorenzoi, Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus, Schizaster (Paraster) rougeriei, Schizaster (Paraster) tatei

Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 781, a test. Its type locality is Finca "La Caoba", loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos, which is in an Eocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Finca "La Caoba", loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos

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