Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Full reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225
Belongs to Dendraster according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938
Sister taxa: Dendraster arnoldi, Dendraster ashleyi, Dendraster cedrosensis, Dendraster coalingaensis, Dendraster diegoensis, Dendraster elsmerensis, Dendraster excentricus, Dendraster gibbsii, Dendraster hesperis, Dendraster jacalitosensis, Dendraster pacificus, Dendraster pentagonalis, Dendraster sullivani, Dendraster venturaensis, Dendraster vizcainoensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Newhall, northwest, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in California
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Newhall, northwest
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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