Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Full reference: M. S. M. Ali. 1992. A new genus and species of regular echinoid from the Late Cretaceous of Gebel El Rowdah, Hatta area, Oman-U.A.E. Journal of Paleontology 66:693-696
Parent taxon: Arbaciidae according to A. B. Smith 1995
See also Ali 1992 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acropeltis, Acrosaster, Arbacia, Arbaciella, Arbia, Atopechinus, Baueria, Codiopsis, Coelopleuridae, Coelopleurus, Echinocidaris, Glypticus, Goniopygus, Heteropodia, Magnosia, Noetlingaster, Pleiocyphus, Podocidaris
Subtaxa: Hattopsis paucituberculatus Hattopsis sphericus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Oman (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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