Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106
Belongs to Hemiaster according to C. W. Cooke 1959
Sister taxa: Hemiaster (Bolbaster), Hemiaster (Gregoryaster), Hemiaster (Hemiaster), Hemiaster (Holanthus), Hemiaster (Integraster), Hemiaster (Leymeriaster), Hemiaster (Trachyaster), Hemiaster aequisgranensis, Hemiaster alamedensis, Hemiaster amelianus, Hemiaster antillensis, Hemiaster arcolensis, Hemiaster arcticus, Hemiaster atavus, Hemiaster beecheri, Hemiaster bufo, Hemiaster californicus, Hemiaster calvini, Hemiaster cholamensis, Hemiaster comanchei, Hemiaster delawarensis, Hemiaster dewalquei, Hemiaster elegans, Hemiaster globulosus, Hemiaster gonzalezmunozi, Hemiaster hattaensis, Hemiaster humphreysanus, Hemiaster kuemmeli, Hemiaster orbignyi, Hemiaster oregonensis, Hemiaster parastatus, Hemiaster paronai, Hemiaster proclivus, Hemiaster regulusanus, Hemiaster sabinal, Hemiaster scutiger, Hemiaster sibiricus, Hemiaster stella, Hemiaster texanus, Hemiaster ungula, Hemiaster welleri, Hemiaster wetherbyi, Hemiaster zululandensis
Type specimen: USNM 562457, a test. Its type locality is USGS 5058 - Moscow Bluff [Porters Creek], which is in a Paleocene coastal claystone in the Porters Creek Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at USGS 5058 - Moscow Bluff [Porters Creek]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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