Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Full reference: S. Nisiyama. 1966. The echinoid fauna from Japan and adjacent regions, Part I. Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 11:1-277
Belongs to Salenia according to S. Nisiyama 1966
Sister taxa: Salenia (Pleurosalenia), Salenia ameri, Salenia anthophora, Salenia belgica, Salenia buddyi, Salenia cascadensis, Salenia cherei, Salenia heberti, Salenia hondoensis, Salenia mexicana, Salenia microprocta, Salenia minima, Salenia nutrix, Salenia obnupta, Salenia schencki, Salenia scrippsae, Salenia scutigera, Salenia sigillata, Salenia texana, Salenia tumidula
Type specimen: IGPS 73750. Its type locality is Otokojima, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in the Kakinoura Formation of Japan.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution: found only at Otokojima
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