''Scutella'' is an extinct

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of sand dollars (flat

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s) in the family

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. These slow-moving semi-

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s lived from the Oligocene to the Quaternary epoch (48.6 to 0.012 Ma.).The Paleobiology Database
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Species

* ''Scutella gabbi'' Raimond 1863 * ''Scutella paulensis'' Agassiz 1841

References

Miocene animals Clypeasteroida Pliocene animals Pleistocene animals Extant Oligocene first appearances Cenozoic animals of South America Fossil taxa described in 1816 Prehistoric echinoderms of Africa {{paleo-echinoidea-stub