Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
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 Brissus according to M. Sanchez-Roig 1953
See also Kier 1984
Sister taxa: Brissus cabrerai, Brissus camagueyensis, Brissus durhami, Brissus eximius, Brissus expansus, Brissus fragilis, Brissus glenni, Brissus inaequalis, Brissus kewi, Brissus latecarinatus, Brissus minutus, Brissus rana, Brissus sagrae, Brissus spatiosus, Brissus unicolor
Type specimen: Sanchez Roig Tipo No. 771, 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 shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Canteras de Caraballo, loma Caoba, San Diego de los Banos
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