Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Alternative combination: Scutella newcombei
Full reference: W. S. W. Kew. 1920. Cretaceous And Cenozoic Echinoidea of the Pacific coast of North America. University Of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 23-236
Belongs to Echinarachnius according to C. E. Weaver 1942
See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Kew 1920
Sister taxa: Echinarachnius alaskense, Echinarachnius andersoni, Echinarachnius astrodapsoides, Echinarachnius brewerianus, Echinarachnius parma, Echinarachnius plafkeri, Echinarachnius ungaensis
Type specimen: UCMP 11356, a test
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Slide Hill Beach (Oligocene of British Columbia)
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