†Rhopostoma Cooke 1959 (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106
Parent taxon: Echinoneidae according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Amblypygus, Echinoneus, Paleoechinoneus, Pygoyrina, Pyrina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (3: Alabama collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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