Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Toxopneustidae

Alternative spelling: Scoliechinus

Parent taxon: Toxopneustidae according to S. K. Donovan 1993

See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Goniopneustes, Gymnechinus, Lytechinus, Mirechinus, Nudechinus, Oligophyma, Pseudoboletia, Pseudocentrotus, Schizechinus, Sphaerechinus, Toxopneustes

Subtaxa: Scholiechinus axiologus

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Sunderland Inlier, St. James Parish (Cretaceous of Jamaica)

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