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Echinopsis (sea urchin)

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Echinoidea

Order
  
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Genus

Phylum
  
Superorder
  
Echinacea

Family
  
Echinopsis (sea urchin)

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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Echinopsis (sea urchin) Wikipedia


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