Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae

Belongs to Cardiaster according to C. W. Cooke 1953

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915

Sister taxa: Cardiaster batnensis, Cardiaster bolschechetensis, Cardiaster cubensis, Cardiaster curtus, Cardiaster deciper, Cardiaster granulosus, Cardiaster jugatus, Cardiaster leonensis, Cardiaster marylandicus, Cardiaster palmeri

Type specimen: Its type locality is 2.5 miles NW of Matawan, which is in a Santonian marine claystone in the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey

Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at 2.5 miles NW of Matawan

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