Glyptocyphus Pomel 1883 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Calycina - Phymosomatidae

Full reference: A. Pomel. 1883. Classification méthodique des échinides vivants et fossiles. Adolphe Jourdan, Alger 1-131

Parent taxon: Phymosomatidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthechinus, Actinophyma, Aeolopneustes, Cosmocyphus, Dixieus, Gauthieria, Glyptocidaris, Hemithylus, Jacquiertia, Lambertechinus, Leptechinus, Micropsis, Narindechinus, Phymosoma, Phymosomatinae, Pleurodiadema, Plistophyma, Polyplacidia, Porosoma, Rachiosoma, Thylechinus, Winkleria

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (6)

Total: 7 collections including 9 occurrences

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