Cardabia bullarensis Foster and Philip 1978 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Corystusidae

Full reference: R. J. Foster and G. M. Philip. 1978. Tertiary holasteroid echinoids from Australia and New Zealand. Palaeontology 21:791-822

Belongs to Cardabia according to R. J. Foster and G. M. Philip 1978

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Giralia Anticline, west flank, north end, which is in a Paleocene/Paleocene marine sandstone in the Pirie calcarenite Formation of Australia

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Giralia Anticline, west flank, north end

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