Trochotiara (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Calycina

Parent taxon: Phymosomatoida according to A. B. Smith 1995

See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Boletechinus, Cottaldia, Diplopodiidae, Emiratiidae, Gauthiosoma, Heterodiadematidae, Leioechinus, Phymosomatidae, Polydiadematidae, Zeugopleurus

Subtaxa: Trochotiara kongieli Trochotiara pucaensis Trochotiara suleiovense Trochotiara superbum

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (3 collections), Hungary (1), Portugal (14), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of Luxembourg (1), Poland (10), the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 37 collections including 38 occurrences

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