Micraster pseudorostratus Djabarov 1964 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae

Full reference: G. N. Djabarov. 1964. Verkhnemelovye Morskiy Ezhi Tsentral'nogo Kopet-Daga i ikh Stratigraficheskoe Znachenie 1-114

Belongs to Micraster according to G. N. Djabarov 1964

Sister taxa: Micraster (Gibbaster), Micraster (Micraster), Micraster (Plesiaster), Micraster acutus, Micraster americanus, Micraster carinatus, Micraster coranguinum, Micraster corbovis, Micraster cortestudinarium, Micraster glyphus, Micraster leskei, Micraster rogalae, Micraster schlueteri, Micraster schroederi, Micraster uddeni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Skobelevskaya Syncline, southern wing (Isomicraster gibbus gorizont), which is in a Campanian marine horizon in Turkmenistan

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Skobelevskaya Syncline, southern wing (Isomicraster gibbus gorizont)

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