Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Parent taxon: Echinidae according to W. S. W. Kew 1920
See also Cooke 1941, Fell and Pawson 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Nisiyama 1966, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Anapesus, Atactus, Echinus, Gracilechinus, Hypechinus, Isechinus, Paracentrotus, Psammechinus, Stirechinus
Subtaxa: Tripneustes (Hipponoe) Tripneustes depresss Tripneustes esculenta Tripneustes gratilla Tripneustes magnificus Tripneustes pregratilla
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Jamaica (1 collection), Mauritius (1)
• Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Italy (2), Micronesia (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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