Paleopneustes holmani Grant and Hertlein 1938 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Paleopneustidae

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

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Standard Oil Company well, Temple 19, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Repetto Formation of California

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Standard Oil Company well, Temple 19

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