07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene
07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene 07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene 07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene 07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene

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07230 - Top Huge 4.20 Inch Clypeaster subdepressus (Sea Urchin) Upper Pliocene

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Species
Clypeaster subdepressus, Gray (1825)
Age
Upper Pliocene (3.6 million years)
Location
Western coast of Sahara Desert, Morocco
Formation
Pliocene outcrops Sahara Desert
Size
106.8 mm   •    in
Weight
200 g   •    oz
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Description
Nice specimen. It only has some glued fractures.
Clypeaster sp, Lamarck 1801 (sand dollar)
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae


Parent taxon: Clypeasteridae according to S. K. Donovan et al. 2005

See also Durham 1961, Durham 1966, Ragaini 1994 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ammotrophinae, Arachnoidinae, Clypeasterinae

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Age range: 37.2 to 0.012 Ma

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