Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Strongylocentrotidae
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1835. Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum. Animalia Mertensii. Petropoli, Lipsiae 1:1-75
Parent taxon: Strongylocentrotidae according to W. S. W. Kew 1920
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1941, Fell and Pawson 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Nisiyama 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Allocentrotus, Caenocentrotus, Heliocidaris, Loxechinus
Subtaxa: Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Strongylocentrotus echinoides Strongylocentrotus fragilis Strongylocentrotus franciscanus Strongylocentrotus intermedius Strongylocentrotus magistrus Strongylocentrotus nudus Strongylocentrotus octoporus Strongylocentrotus polycanthus Strongylocentrotus pulchellus Strongylocentrotus pulcherriumus Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Strongylocentrotus sachalinicus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: British Columbia, New Brunswick collections), Greenland (16), Iceland (2), Mexico (4), United States (25: Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Japan (3), United States (7: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of New Caledonia (1), United States (4: California)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 67 collections including 73 occurrences
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