Pygopistes Pomel (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae

Parent taxon: Nucleolitidae according to S. K. Donovan 1993

See also Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Parma and Casadío 2005 and Sepkoski 2002

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

Subtaxa: Pygopistes coquandi Pygopistes parrasae Pygopistes rudistarum

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Argentina (2 collections)

• Cretaceous of Jamaica (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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