Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Dendrasteridae
Alternative combination: Dendraster diegoensis venturaensis
Full reference: W. S. W. Kew. 1920. Cretaceous And Cenozoic Echinoidea of the Pacific coast of North America. University Of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 23-236
Belongs to Dendraster according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938
See also Kew 1920
Sister taxa: Dendraster arnoldi, Dendraster ashleyi, Dendraster casseli, Dendraster cedrosensis, Dendraster coalingaensis, Dendraster diegoensis, Dendraster elsmerensis, Dendraster excentricus, Dendraster gibbsii, Dendraster hesperis, Dendraster jacalitosensis, Dendraster pacificus, Dendraster pentagonalis, Dendraster sullivani, Dendraster vizcainoensis
Type specimen: UCMP 11351
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Las Posas Hills (Pliocene of California)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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