Strongylocentrotus Brandt 1835 (sea urchin)

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

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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 (6: California, Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)

• Miocene of New Caledonia (1), United States (4: California)

• Oligocene of United States (1: California)

Total: 66 collections including 72 occurrences

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