Lovenia alabamensis Cooke 1959 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106

Belongs to Lovenia according to C. W. Cooke 1959

Sister taxa: Lovenia (Lovenia), Lovenia cordiformis, Lovenia dumblei, Lovenia forbesii, Lovenia lorioli, Lovenia madurae, Lovenia mauritanica, Lovenia mexicana, Lovenia vicentina, Lovenia woodsii

Type specimen: USNM 562469, a test

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Damon Mound (Oligocene of Texas)

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