Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Temnopleuridae
Full reference: A. Agassiz. 1869. Preliminary report on the echini and starfishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by LF de Pourtalès, Assist. US Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zolology at Harvard College 1:253-308
Parent taxon: Temnopleuridae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966
Sister taxa: Amblypneustes, Desmechinus, Echinocyphus, Glyptechinus, Goniosigma, Grammechinus, Graphepleurus, Irenechinus, Leiocyphus, Leptopleurus, Martinechinus, Microcyphus, Opechinus, Ortholophus, Paradoxechinus, Printechinus, Prionechinus, Pseudarbacina, Pseudechinus, Pseudodicoptella, Salmacis, Scolechinus, Temnechinus, Temnopleurinae, Temnotrema, Triplacidia, Zeuglopleurus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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