Paleoechinoneus Grant and Hertlein 1938 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae

Full reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225

Parent taxon: Echinoneidae according to C. D. Wagner and J. W. Durham 1966

See also Grant and Hertlein 1938

Sister taxa: Amblypygus, Echinoneus, Pygoyrina, Pyrina, Rhopostoma

Subtaxa: Paleoechinoneus hannai

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at San Antonio del Mar, north (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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