†family Pelanechinidae Groom 1887 (sea urchin)
Echinoidea - Echinothurioida - Pelanechinidae
Alternative spelling: Pelanechininae
Full reference: T. T. Groom. 1887. On some newfeatures in Pelanechinus corallinus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43:703-714
Parent taxon: Echinothurioida according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Fell 1966 and Kroh and Smith 2010
Sister taxa: Echinothuriidae, Kamptosomatidae, Phormosomatidae
Subtaxa: Pelanechinus Pelanodiademidae Pseudopedina
Type: Pelanechinus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Luxembourg (1 collection), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (12)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence