Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Scutasteridae

Full reference: R. W. Pack. 1909. Notes On Echinoids From The Tertiary of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(18):275-283

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

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Durham 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Kew 1920 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Scutaster andersoni Scutaster vaquerosensis

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Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. A-244, Santa Paula (Miocene of California)

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