Heterosalenia Cotteau (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae

Parent taxon: Acrosaleniidae according to S. K. Donovan 1993

See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acrosalenia, Holosaleniini, Milnia, Monodiadema, Polysalenia, Pseudosalenia, Recrosalenia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Jamaica (3 collections)

• Jurassic of Saudi Arabia (3)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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