Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae

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 Catopygus according to W. S. W. Kew 1920

See also Grant and Hertlein 1938

Sister taxa: Catopygus bargesii, Catopygus cajonensis, Catopygus carinatus, Catopygus mississippiensis, Catopygus pusillus, Catopygus rodriguezi

Type specimen: UCMP 11014

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Catopygus californicus in the database

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