†Globator vaughani Cooke 1953 (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44
Belongs to Globator according to C. W. Cooke 1953
Sister taxa: Globator aegyptiaca, Globator bleicheri
Type specimen: USNM 108375. Its type locality is USGS 1771, Carbonville, which is in a Campanian/Campanian carbonate limestone in the Anacacho Limestone Formation of Texas.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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