Pyrina Desmoulins (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae

Parent taxon: Echinoneidae according to W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell 1915

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Amblypygus, Echinoneus, Paleoechinoneus, Pygoyrina, Rhopostoma

Subtaxa: Pyrina montainvillensis Pyrina parahybensis Pyrina parryi

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), France (8), Hungary (4), Portugal (7), Switzerland (9), Turkey (1), United States (2: Texas)

Total: 32 collections including 34 occurrences

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