Epiaster catumbellensis de Loriol 1888 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Spatangidae

Full reference: P. de Loriol. 1888. Description des échinides, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. 30(2):1-116. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):97-114

Belongs to Epiaster according to J. W. Gregory 1917

See also de Loriol 1888

Sister taxa: Epiaster brevipetalus, Epiaster depressus, Epiaster distinctus, Epiaster michelini, Epiaster whitei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Catumbella (Couches à Schloenbachia inflata), which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in the Catumbela Formation of Angola

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (11 collections)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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