Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
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 Eupatagus according to W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell 1915
Sister taxa: Eupatagus (Gymnopatagus), Eupatagus alatus, Eupatagus anomala, Eupatagus antillarum, Eupatagus attenuatus, Eupatagus batequensis, Eupatagus brodermanni, Eupatagus calistoides, Eupatagus carolinensis, Eupatagus casanovai, Eupatagus estenozi, Eupatagus formosus, Eupatagus lawsonae, Eupatagus martini, Eupatagus mexicanus, Eupatagus mojsvari, Eupatagus mooreanus, Eupatagus nicklesi, Eupatagus ocalanus, Eupatagus pendulus, Eupatagus pulchellus, Eupatagus rostratus, Eupatagus roundus, Eupatagus sanchezi, Eupatagus santanae, Eupatagus siboneyensis, Eupatagus stevensi, Eupatagus tuberosus, Eupatagus turibacoensis, Eupatagus wilsoni, Spatangus (Eupatagus) gottschei, Eupatagus (Spatangomorpha) pinarensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Johnson's Lime Sink, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the Ocala Formation of Florida
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Johnson's Lime Sink
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