†Scutella floridana Cooke 1942 (sand dollar)
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Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Scutellidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62
Belongs to Scutella according to C. W. Cooke 1942
Sister taxa: Scutella cazonesensis, Scutella nipponica, Scutella tuomeyi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sopchoppy, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Hawthorne Formation of Florida
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Sopchoppy
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