Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Full reference: H. Engel. 1961. Some fossil Clypeastrids (Echinoidea) from Brimstone Hill (St. Kitts) and Sugar Loaf (St. Eustatius), Lesser Antilles. Beaufortia 9:1-6
Belongs to Paraster according to H. Engel 1961
Sister taxa: Paraster armiger, Paraster delgadoi, Paraster joannisboehmi, Paraster pinarensis, Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus, Schizaster (Paraster) delorenzoi, Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus, Schizaster (Paraster) rougeriei, Schizaster (Paraster) tatei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sugar Loaf, bed 31c, which is in a Pleistocene open shallow subtidal packstone in the White Wall Formation of the Netherlands Antilles
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Sugar Loaf, bed 31c
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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