Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Alternative combination: Schizaster armiger
Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341
Belongs to Paraster according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942 and Jackson 1917
Sister taxa: Paraster delgadoi, Paraster eustatii, Paraster joannisboehmi, Paraster pinarensis, Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus, Schizaster (Paraster) delorenzoi, Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus, Schizaster (Paraster) rougeriei, Schizaster (Paraster) tatei
Type specimen: USNM 141104, a test
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)
• Eocene of Panama (2), United States (10: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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