07392 - Top Rare 2.03 Inch Micraster (Heart Urchin) Upper Cretaceous Dyrosaurus phosphaticus The tooth is in a
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
The tooth is in a worse state of preservation
Specimen without preparation or cleaning
belongs to the Cretoxyrhinidae family
offshore (2)
anoxic substrates without oxygen
07392 - Top Rare 2.03 Inch Micraster (Heart Urchin) Upper Cretaceous Dyrosaurus phosphaticus The tooth is in aWell preserved specimen. Micraster, Agassiz 1836 (heart urchin) Echinoidea Spatangoida Micrasteridae PaleoDB taxon number: 33430 Parent taxon: Micrasteridae according to A. G. Fischer 1966 See also Djabarov 1964 and Sepkoski 2002 Sister taxa: Brissopneustes, Cyclasterinae, Isopneustes, Ovulaster Subtaxa: Micraster (Gibbaster), Micraster (Micraster), Micraster (Plesiaster), Micraster acutus, Micraster americanus, Micraster carinatus, Micraster