Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Alternative combination: Laganum floridanum
Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341
Belongs to Durhamella according to P. M. Kier 1968
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Cooke 1942
Sister taxon: Durhamella ocalana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Turks Cave, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in Alabama
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of United States (2: Alabama, Florida)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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