†Lytechinus coreyi Grant and Hertlein 1938 (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae
Full reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225
Belongs to Lytechinus according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938
Sister taxa: Lytechinus anamesus, Lytechinus baldwini, Lytechinus milleri, Lytechinus pictus, Lytechinus semituberculatus, Lytechinus variegatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Santa Rosa Island, which is in a Miocene coastal horizon in the Vaqueros Formation of California
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Santa Rosa Island
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