†Phymotaxis mansfieldi Cooke 1941 (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1941. Cenozoic Regular Echinoids of Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 15(1):1-20
Belongs to Phymotaxis according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Cooke 1941
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 372868, a test. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 7361, 7362, 7363 - Brooksville [Suwannee Lmst], which is in a Rupelian carbonate limestone in the Suwannee Limestone Formation of Florida.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: Florida collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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