Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44
Belongs to Catopygus according to C. W. Cooke 1953
Sister taxa: Catopygus bargesii, Catopygus cajonensis, Catopygus californicus, Catopygus carinatus, Catopygus pusillus, Catopygus rodriguezi
Type specimen: USNM 108379. Its type locality is USGS 6851, Houston, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation of Mississippi.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Mississippi collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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