Ammotrophus Clark 1928 (sand dollar)
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Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Synonym: Hesperaster Clark 1938
Full reference: H. L. Clark. 1928. The sea-lilies, sea-stars, brittlestars and seaurchins of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum 3:361-482
Parent taxon: Ammotrophinae according to J. W. Durham 1955
See also Durham 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Monostychia, Scutellinoides
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ammotrophus in the database
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