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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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