Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Full reference: W. S. W. Kew. 1920. Cretaceous And Cenozoic Echinoidea of the Pacific coast of North America. University Of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 23-236
Belongs to Astrodapsis according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938
Sister taxa: Astrodapsis antiselli, Astrodapsis arnoldi, Astrodapsis brewerianus, Astrodapsis cierboensis, Astrodapsis davisi, Astrodapsis diabloensis, Astrodapsis fernandoensis, Astrodapsis israelskyi, Astrodapsis jacalitosensis, Astrodapsis kewi, Astrodapsis pabloensis, Astrodapsis peltoides, Astrodapsis spatiosus, Astrodapsis whitneyi
Type specimen: UCMP 11032, a test
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at South central part of SE quarter of section 24, Coalinga Quadrangle (Pliocene of California)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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