Holaster feralis Cooke 1953 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44

Belongs to Holaster according to C. W. Cooke 1953

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

Type specimen: USNM 108385. Its type locality is Wild Horse Park, Pueblo, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Greenhorn Limestone Formation of Colorado.

Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (3: Colorado collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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