Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Alternative combination: Scutella pabloensis
Full reference: W. S. W. Kew. 1915. Tertiary echinoids from the San Pablo Group of Middle California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8(20):365-376
Belongs to Astrodapsis according to C. A. Hall 1962
See also Grant and Hertlein 1938, Kew 1915 and Kew 1920
Sister taxa: Astrodapsis antiselli, Astrodapsis arnoldi, Astrodapsis brewerianus, Astrodapsis cierboensis, Astrodapsis davisi, Astrodapsis diabloensis, Astrodapsis fernandoensis, Astrodapsis fresnoensis, Astrodapsis israelskyi, Astrodapsis jacalitosensis, Astrodapsis kewi, Astrodapsis peltoides, Astrodapsis spatiosus, Astrodapsis whitneyi
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Hercules, near (Miocene of California)
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