Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Full reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225
Belongs to Brissus according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938
Sister taxa: Brissus cabrerai, Brissus camagueyensis, Brissus caobaense, Brissus durhami, Brissus eximius, Brissus expansus, Brissus fragilis, Brissus glenni, Brissus inaequalis, Brissus latecarinatus, Brissus minutus, Brissus rana, Brissus sagrae, Brissus spatiosus, Brissus unicolor
Type specimen: Its type locality is Santa Rosa Island, which is in a Miocene coastal horizon in the Vaqueros Formation of California
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Santa Rosa Island
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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