Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Invalid subtaxa: Noetlingia Lambert 1898 [replaced name], Protechinus Noetling 1897 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Arbaciidae according to A. B. Smith 1995
See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acropeltis, Acrosaster, Arbacia, Arbaciella, Arbia, Atopechinus, Baueria, Codiopsis, Coelopleuridae, Coelopleurus, Echinocidaris, Glypticus, Goniopygus, Hattopsis, Heteropodia, Magnosia, Pleiocyphus, Podocidaris
Subtaxa: Noetlingaster emiratescus Noetlingaster paucituberculatus
Type: Protechinus paucituberculatus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Oman (5 collections), Saudi Arabia (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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