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The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, February 2012

Astrodapsis whitneyi Reymond, 1864, p. 52

[=Astrodapsis coalingaensis Kew, 1920, p. 96;
=Astrodapsis grandis Kew, 1920, p. 100]

Diagnostic Features A species of Astrodapsis with:
  • Thin to moderately thick test margin; usually distinctly notched;
  • Petals slightly raised;
  • Interambulacral valleys present;
  • Periproct inframarginal;
Distribution Upper Miocene, California, U.S.A.
Type Holotype, University of Berkeley Museum of Paleontology 12574
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.