Arbacina Pomel 1869 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Temnopleuroida

Parent taxon: Temnopleuroida according to A. B. Smith 2009

See also Fell and Pawson 1966, Ragaini 1994 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ambipleurus, Asaphechinus, Cryptechinus, Gagaria, Hebertia, Micropsidia, Pentechinus, Tatechinus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of Algeria (1 collection), Egypt (1), France (1), Italy (1), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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