Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Echinidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anapesus, Atactus, Gracilechinus, Hypechinus, Isechinus, Paracentrotus, Psammechinus, Stirechinus, Tripneustes
Subtaxa: Echinus (Agarites) Echinus anchistus Echinus euryporus Echinus granularis Echinus horridus Echinus perlatus Echinus purpuratus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1)
• Miocene of Cyprus (1), Malta (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Triassic of Hungary (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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