†Isaster benguellensis de Loriol 1888 (heart urchin)
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Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
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 Isaster according to P. de Loriol 1888
Sister taxon: Isaster aquitanicus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (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: found only at Dombe-Grande (Couches à Schloenbachia inflata)
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