Heliophora Agassiz 1840 (sand dollar)

Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Rotulidae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel 1-20

Parent taxon: Rotulidae according to J. W. Durham 1955

See also Durham 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Rotula, Rotuloidea

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Heliophora in the database

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