Echinoidea - Irregularia - Clypeidae
Full reference: P. de Loriol. 1888. Description des échinides, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. 30(2):1-116. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):97-114
Belongs to Pygurus according to P. de Loriol 1888
Sister taxa: Pygurus (Mepygurus), Pygurus (Pyguropsis), Pygurus (Pygurus), Pygurus asiaticus, Pygurus complanatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (couches à Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis), which is in an Aptian marine sandstone in Angola
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (couches à Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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