Holaster tanamensis Shmidt 1976 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae

Full reference: O. I. Shmidt. 1976. O pervykh nakhodkakh morskikh ezhey v verkhnemelovykh otlozheniyakh Sovetskoy Arktiki. Trudy Vsesoyuzhnogo Neftyanogo Nauchno-Issledovatelskogo Geologorazvedochnogo Instituta 388:151-156

Belongs to Holaster according to O. I. Shmidt 1976

Sister taxa: Holaster cinctus, Holaster dombeensis, Holaster feralis, Holaster indicus, Holaster marginalis, Holaster nodulosus, Holaster simplex

Type specimen: VSEGEI 1/8846. Its type locality is Olen'i Roga tract, Tanama River, which is in a Santonian marine phosphorite in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Olen'i Roga tract, Tanama River

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