Blastoidea - Granatocrinida - Schizoblastidae

Full reference: D. B. Macurda. 1965. Orbiblastus, a new Mississippian blastoid genus from Arkansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 50:299-307

Parent taxon: Schizoblastidae according to J.A. Waters and A.S. Horowitz 1993

See also Beaver et al. 1967 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acentrotremites, Auloblastus, Deltoblastus, Hydroblastus, Lophoblastus, Pinguiblastus, Schizoblastus

Subtaxa: Orbiblastus hoskyni

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Type: Orbiblastus hoskynae

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at west of Shawnee Cave, Bruno. 6.5 miles due south of Yellville (Carboniferous of Arkansas)

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