Micropsis lineatus Clark and Twitchell 1915 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Calycina - Phymosomatidae

Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341

Belongs to Micropsis according to W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell 1915

Sister taxon: Micropsis desori

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bonham Road, Denison, which is in a Cretaceous marine marl in the Denison Formation of Texas

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Bonham Road, Denison

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