†Meekechinus Jackson 1912 (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Echinocystitoida - Lepidesthidae
Full reference: R. T. Jackson. 1912. Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Palaeozoic species. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 7:1-491
Parent taxon: Lepidesthidae according to A. Boczarowski 2001
See also Kier 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Lepidesthes
Subtaxa: Meekechinus elegans
Type: Meekechinus elegans
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (1: Kansas collection)
• Devonian of Poland (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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