Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae
Parent taxon: Toxopneustidae according to R. A. Linder et al. 1988
See also Cooke 1941, Fell and Pawson 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Goniopneustes, Gymnechinus, Mirechinus, Nudechinus, Oligophyma, Pseudoboletia, Pseudocentrotus, Schizechinus, Scholiechinus, Sphaerechinus, Toxopneustes
Subtaxa: Lytechinus anamesus Lytechinus baldwini Lytechinus coreyi Lytechinus milleri Lytechinus pictus Lytechinus semituberculatus Lytechinus variegatus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Jamaica (1), United States (5: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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