Echinoidea - Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Full reference: M. Sanchez-Roig. 1953. Nuevos Equinidos fosiles de la fauna Cubana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas Y Naturales de la Habana 41:136-176
Belongs to Phymosoma according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953
Sister taxa: Phymosoma baylei, Phymosoma binexilis, Phymosoma corneti, Phymosoma dixie, Phymosoma gehrdenense, Phymosoma hexoaporum, Phymosoma hilli, Phymosoma maastrichtensis, Phymosoma peloria, Phymosoma princeps, Cyphosoma canali, Cyphosoma riograndensis, Cyphosoma volanum
Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 741, a test. Its type locality is Canteras de Caraballo, loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos, which is in an Eocene carbonate carbonate in Cuba.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution: found only at Canteras de Caraballo, loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos
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