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Contributed by Andrew Smith, February 2012

Astrodapsis cierboensis Kew, 1915, p. 370

Diagnostic Features A species of Astrodapsis with:
  • Petals not, or only slightly, elevated;
  • Margin of test unnotched;
  • Periproct marginal;
  • Incipient interambulacral valleys
Distribution Late Miocene, California, USA
Type Lectotype; Berkeley University Museum of Paleontology 10061, by subsequent designation of Kew (1920, p. 94)
Classification and/or Status A species of Astrodapsis
Remarks Hall, C. A. 1962. Evolution of the echinoid genus Astrodapsis. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 40(2), 47-180, 44 pls.