Scutella (echinoderm)

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Scutella
Temporal range: Oligocene–Quaternary
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Fossils of Scutella paulensis from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Echinoidea
Subclass:
Euechinoidea
Order:
Clypeasteroida
Superfamily:
Scutellidea
Family:
Scutellidae
Genus:
Scutella

Lamarck 1816

Scutella is an extinct genus of sand dollars (flat sea urchins) in the family Scutellidae.

These slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivores lived from the Oligocene to the Quaternary epoch (48.6 to 0.012 Ma.). [1]

Species

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