Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Alternative combination: Schizaster (Linthia) wilmingtonensis
Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341
Belongs to Linthia according to P. M. Kier 1980
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Cooke 1942
Sister taxa: Linthia (Linthia), Linthia (Lutetiaster), Linthia alabamensis, Linthia avilensis, Linthia brodermanni, Linthia cretacica, Linthia garciai, Linthia ghiroboensis, Linthia hanoverensis, Linthia houzeaui, Linthia monteroae, Linthia navillei, Linthia praenipponica, Linthia prima, Linthia sanrafaelensis, Linthia sudanensis, Linthia variabilis, Schizaster (Linthia) ocalanus, Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus
Type specimen: Its type locality is City quarry near cemetery, Wilmington, which is in an Eocene marine marl in the Jackson Formation of North Carolina
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (10: North Carolina, South Carolina collections)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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