†Echinocardium kelloggi Kier 1983 (heart urchin)
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Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Full reference: P. M. Kier. 1983. Upper Cenozoic echinoids from the Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53:499-507
Belongs to Echinocardium according to P. M. Kier 1983
Sister taxa: Echinocardium cordatum, Echinocardium deperessum, Echinocardium marylandiense, Echinocardium orthonotum
Type specimen: USNM 186521
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation (Pliocene of North Carolina)
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