Sarsella gregoryi Clark and Twitchell 1915 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Spatangidae

Alternative combination: Vasconaster gregoryi

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 Sarsella according to W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell 1915

See also Cooke 1942

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Santee canal (Santee Limestone, S. Carolina), which is in a Bartonian marine wackestone/grainstone in the Santee Limestone Formation of South Carolina.

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Santee canal (Santee Limestone, S. Carolina)

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