Echinobrissus angustatus Clark and Twitchell 1915 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae

Alternative combination: Nucleopygus angustatus

Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341

Belongs to Echinobrissus according to W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell 1915

See also Kier 1962

Sister taxa: Nucleolites hori, Nucleolites scutatus, Echinobrissus atlanticus, Echinobrissus pilensis, Echinobrissus expansus, Echinobrissus orbicularis, Echinobrissus clunicularis, Echinobrissus terquemi, Echinobrissus lefebvrei, Echinobrissus ammonis, Echinobrissus elongatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shoal Creek at the Oaks [Buda Limestone], which is in a Cenomanian marine limestone in the Buda Limestone Formation of Texas

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Shoal Creek at the Oaks [Buda Limestone]

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