Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae

Full reference: S. Nisiyama. 1966. The echinoid fauna from Japan and adjacent regions, Part I. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 11:1-277

Parent taxon: Toxopneustidae according to S. Nisiyama 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Goniopneustes, Gymnechinus, Lytechinus, Nudechinus, Oligophyma, Pseudoboletia, Pseudocentrotus, Schizechinus, Scholiechinus, Sphaerechinus, Toxopneustes

Subtaxa: Mirechinus mirabilis

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Nishi-ura (Eocene of Japan)

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