Echinobrissus pilensis Jesionek-Szymanska 1963 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae

Full reference: W. Jesionek-Szymanska. 1963. Échinides irréguliers du Dogger de Pologne. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 8:293-414

Belongs to Echinobrissus according to W. Jesionek-Szymanska 1963

Sister taxa: Nucleolites hori, Nucleolites scutatus, Echinobrissus atlanticus, Echinobrissus terquemi, Echinobrissus expansus, Echinobrissus ammonis, Echinobrissus angustatus, Echinobrissus lefebvrei, Echinobrissus elongatus, Echinobrissus orbicularis, Echinobrissus clunicularis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pila Koscielecka (Upper Bathonian), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in Poland

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Pila Koscielecka (Upper Bathonian)

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