Scutella (echinoderm)
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| Fossils of Scutella paulensis from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Superfamily: | Scutellidea
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| Genus: | Scutella Lamarck 1816
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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
- Scutella gabbi Raimond 1863
- Scutella paulensis Agassiz 1841