Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Full reference: A. S. Osborn, R. Mooi, and C. N. Ciampaglio. 2013. A new species of Protoscutella (Echinoidea, Clypeasteroidea, Protoscutellidae) from the Middle Eocene (Lutetian) Santee Limestone in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology 49(3):119-131
Belongs to Protoscutella according to A. S. Osborn et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Protoscutella conradi, Protoscutella mississippiensis, Protoscutella pentagonium, Protoscutella plana
Type specimen: UF 213520, a test. Its type locality is Southern Aggregates Jamestown Quarry, which is in a Lutetian offshore shelf limestone in the Santee Limestone Formation of South Carolina.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Southern Aggregates Jamestown Quarry
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