Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Alternative spelling: Echinus (Psammechinus)
Parent taxon: Echinidae according to P. M. Kier 1997
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1941, Fell and Pawson 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anapesus, Atactus, Echinus, Gracilechinus, Hypechinus, Isechinus, Paracentrotus, Stirechinus, Tripneustes
Subtaxa: Psammechinus carolinensis Psammechinus cingulatus Psammechinus dubius Psammechinus exoletus Psammechinus floralanus Psammechinus ocalanus Psammechinus philanthropus Psammechinus santee
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (8: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Miocene of Algeria (6), Austria (1), Cyprus (2), Egypt (1), France (3), Italy (5), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of United States (3: Alabama, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), United States (2: Georgia, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), France (3), Switzerland (4)
Total: 48 collections including 49 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.