Tylocidaris salina Cooke 1959 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Psychocidaridae

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106

Belongs to Tylocidaris according to C. W. Cooke 1959

Sister taxa: Tylocidaris (Sardocidaris), Tylocidaris (Tylocidaris), Tylocidaris clavigera, Tylocidaris gosae, Tylocidaris vexilifera, Tylocidaris walcotti, Tylocidaris windi

Type specimen: USNM 498879b, a test. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 13395 - Richmond Branch [Salt Mountain Lmst], which is in a Thanetian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Salt Mountain Limestone Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of United States (2: Alabama collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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