Agassizia conradi Bouvé 1851 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae

Alternative combination: Hemiaster conradi

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

Sister taxa: Agassizia alveari, Agassizia caobaensis, Agassizia clevei, Agassizia flexuosa, Agassizia floridiana, Agassizia inflata, Agassizia lamberti, Agassizia persica, Agassizia pinarensis, Agassizia porifera, Agassizia rimulata, Agassizia scrobiculata, Anisaster

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Bainbridge, north (Eocene of Georgia)

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