Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Synonym: Salenia bellula Clark 1801
Belongs to Salenia according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Cooke 1941
Sister taxa: Salenia (Pleurosalenia), Salenia ameri, Salenia anthophora, Salenia belgica, Salenia buddyi, Salenia cascadensis, Salenia cherei, Salenia heberti, Salenia hondoensis, Salenia mexicana, Salenia microprocta, Salenia minima, Salenia novemprovincialis, Salenia nutrix, Salenia obnupta, Salenia schencki, Salenia scrippsae, Salenia scutigera, Salenia sigillata, Salenia texana
Type specimens:
- Salenia tumidula: ANSP 1448, a test. Its type locality is Timber Creek - Vincentown Fm, which is in a Paleocene coastal sandstone in the Vincentown Formation of New Jersey.
- Salenia bellula: ANSP 1446, a test.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (6: New Jersey collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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