Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44
Belongs to Micraster according to C. W. Cooke 1953
Sister taxa: Micraster (Gibbaster), Micraster (Micraster), Micraster (Plesiaster), Micraster acutus, Micraster americanus, Micraster carinatus, Micraster coranguinum, Micraster corbovis, Micraster cortestudinarium, Micraster glyphus, Micraster leskei, Micraster pseudorostratus, Micraster rogalae, Micraster schlueteri, Micraster schroederi
Type specimen: USNM 108404. Its type locality is USGS 16768, Tequesquite Creek, which is in a Santonian carbonate chalk in the Austin Chalk Formation of Texas.
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at USGS 16768, Tequesquite Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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