Gagaria chickasawhay Cooke 1941 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Temnopleuroida

Alternative combination: Thylechinus (Gagaria) chickasawhay

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1941. Cenozoic Regular Echinoids of Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 15(1):1-20

Belongs to Gagaria according to C. W. Cooke 1959

See also Cooke 1941

Sister taxa: Gagaria americana, Gagaria crenularis, Gagaria mossomi, Gagaria venustula, Thylechinus (Gagaria) salis

Type specimen: USNM 498885, a test. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 13388 - Waynesboro [Chickasawhay Lmst], which is in an Oligocene carbonate limestone in the Chickasawhay Limestone Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS Loc. 13388 - Waynesboro [Chickasawhay Lmst]

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