Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Paleopneustidae
Full reference: M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176
Belongs to Pericosmus according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953
Sister taxa: Pericosmus (Pericosmus), Pericosmus (Victoriaster), Pericosmus aguayoi, Pericosmus altus, Pericosmus annosus, Pericosmus atolladosae, Pericosmus blanquizalensis, Pericosmus borraeus, Pericosmus camagueyanus, Pericosmus crawfordi, Pericosmus cubanus, Pericosmus israelskyi, Pericosmus latus, Pericosmus mortenseni, Pericosmus roigi, Pericosmus scaevus, Pericosmus valenzuelai, Pericosmus zanolettii
Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 775, a test. Its type locality is Finca "Sunset", carratera de Cayajabos a Artemisa, which is in a Miocene/Miocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Finca "Sunset", carratera de Cayajabos a Artemisa
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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