Pseudocentrotus (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae

Parent taxon: Toxopneustidae according to S. Nisiyama 1966

See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

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

Subtaxa: Pseudocentrotus stenoporus

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Nagata, Kamo-gun, Izu Province (Pliocene of Japan)

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