Echinoidea - Diadematoida - Diadematidae

Full reference: G. M. Philip. 1963. A new genus of regular echinoid from the Lower Eocene of British Somaliland. Journal of Paleontology 37(5):1104-1109

Parent taxon: Diadematidae according to H. B. Fell 1966

See also Philip 1963 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Australidiadema, Centrostephanus, Diadema, Echinothrix, Eodiadema, Mesodiadema, Palaeodiadema, Pedinothuria, Sierradiadema

Subtaxa: Kierechinus melo

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Type: Pedinopsis melo

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at "Camp 7", Biyo Gora section (Eocene of Somalia)

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