Pygaulus (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae

Parent taxon: Nucleolitidae according to P. M. Kier 1966

See also Kier 1962 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Clypeopygus, Hemicara, Heteronucleus, Hypopygurus, Nucleolites, Oolopygus, Phyllobrissus, Plagiochasma, Pseudonucleus, Pseudosorella, Pygopistes, Pygorhynchus

Subtaxa: Pygaulus desmoulinsii

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (11 collections), Switzerland (6), USSR (2)

Total: 19 collections including 23 occurrences

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