Echinolampas posterocrassa
| Echinolampas posterocrassa Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Cassiduloida |
| Family: | Echinolampadidae |
| Genus: | Echinolampas |
| Species: | †E. posterocrassa
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| Binomial name | |
| †Echinolampas posterocrassa Gregory, 1890
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Echinolampas posterocrassa is an extinct species of echinolampadid echinoderm belonging to the genus Echinolampas that lived during the Eocene epoch.
Palaeoecology
Numerous E. posterocrassa fossils have been found in deposits in Western Australia dating to the Middle Eocene containing boreholes evidencing that they were preyed on by cassid gastropods.[1]
References
- ^ McNamara, Kenneth J.; Martin, Sarah K. (2024). "Patterns of gastropod predation on middle Eocene echinoids from the western Eucla Basin, Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 39 (1): 79. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.39.2024.079-089. ISSN 0312-3162. Retrieved 12 October 2025.