Dendraster vizcainoensis similaris Grant and Hertlein 1938 (sand dollar)

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 vizcainoensis according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Signal Hill (or Los Cerritos), which is in a Pleistocene marine horizon in the San Pedro Formation of California

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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