Kingdom Animalia Class Echinoidea Order Camarodonta Rank Genus | Phylum Echinodermata Superorder Echinacea Family Glyphocyphidae | |
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Echinopsis is an extinct genus of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea.
These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazers lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene periods (125.45 - 5.332 Ma). Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of Madagascar, Pakistan, Senegal, Sudan, United States and Switzerland.
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