Pseudocentrotus (sea urchin)
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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
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Nagata, Kamo-gun, Izu Province (Pliocene of Japan)
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