Family Parasaleniidae Mortensen 1903 (sea urchin)
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Parasaleniidae
Alternative spelling: Parasaleninae
Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1903. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition 1895–1896. Vol. 4, No. 2. Echinoidea, pt. 1. Bianco Luno, Copenhagen 1-198
Parent taxon: Camarodonta according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fell and Pawson 1966 and Nisiyama 1966
Sister taxa: Echinidea, Odontophora, Temnopleuridea
Subtaxa: Diplosalenia Parasalenia
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Micronesia (1 collection), Northern Mariana Islands (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence