Brissus glenni Cooke 1959 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae

Belongs to Brissus according to P. H. De Buisonjé 1974

Sister taxa: Brissus cabrerai, Brissus camagueyensis, Brissus caobaense, Brissus durhami, Brissus eximius, Brissus expansus, Brissus fragilis, Brissus inaequalis, Brissus kewi, Brissus latecarinatus, Brissus minutus, Brissus rana, Brissus sagrae, Brissus spatiosus, Brissus unicolor

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Salinja St. Michiel, Curaçao (Miocene to Pliocene of Curaçao)

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