Pyrina parahybensis Maury 1930 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae

Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1930. O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte. Serviço Geologico E Mineralogico do Brasil Monographia 8:1-305

Belongs to Pyrina according to C. J. Maury 1930

Sister taxa: Pyrina montainvillensis, Pyrina parryi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Right bank of Rio Gramame (Roudairia zone), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in Brazil

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Right bank of Rio Gramame (Roudairia zone)

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