Dendraster venturaensis
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Subclass: Euechinoidea
Order: Clypeasteroida
Family: Dendrasteridae
Genus: Dendraster (Agassiz and Desor, 1847)
Species: Dendraster venturaensis (Kew, 1920)
Rounded specimen with three prominent ambulacra and two partially visible. Apical system is slightly visible.
Specifications
| Object name | Dendraster venturaensis |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2019-0434 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Echinozoa Class: Echinoidea Subclass: Euechinoidea |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Cenozoic Period: Neogene Subperiod: Upper Pliocene Epoch: Pliocene |
| Numeric age | 3 Mya |
| Origin | Camarillo, California, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- W. S. W. Kew. 1920. Cretaceous And Cenozoic Echinoidea of the Pacific coast of North America. University Of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology
- L. Agassiz and P. J. E. Desor. 1847. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 7-8