Stirechinus (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae

Parent taxon: Echinidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966

See also Cooke 1941 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anapesus, Atactus, Echinus, Gracilechinus, Hypechinus, Isechinus, Paracentrotus, Psammechinus, Tripneustes

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Sta. 10409 - Dukes [Hawthorn Fm] (Miocene of South Carolina)

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