Echinoidea - Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Full reference: J. Lambert and P. Thiéry. 1914. Essai de nomenclature Raisonnée des échinides. L. Ferrière, Chaumont (4)241-320
Parent taxon: Stomechinidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966
See also Cooke 1941 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Circopeltis, Codechinus, Diplechinus, Diplotagma, Echinotiara, Jeannetia, Phymechinus, Polycyphus, Psephechinus, Pseudarbacia, Stomechinus, Stomopneustes, Thierychinus, Tiarechinopsis, Triadechinus, Trochalosoma
Subtaxa: Phymotaxis mansfieldi
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (3: Florida collections)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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