Echinocystites (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinocystitoida - Echinocystitidae

Parent taxon: Echinocystitidae according to P. M. Kier 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Praepholidocidaris, Rhenechinus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Leintwardine starfish bed (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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