†Echinocyamus chipolanus Cooke 1942 (sand dollar)
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Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62
Belongs to Echinocyamus according to C. W. Cooke 1942
Sister taxa: Echinocyamus bisexus, Echinocyamus crispus, Echinocyamus huxleyanus, Echinocyamus intermedius, Echinocyamus meridionalis, Echinocyamus parviporus, Echinocyamus parvus, Echinocyamus petalus, Echinocyamus polymorpha, Echinocyamus prostratus, Echinocyamus pusillus, Echinocyamus terminalis, Echinocyamus texanus, Echinocyamus vaughani, Echinocyamus wilsoni
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Alum Bluff (Miocene of Florida)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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