Echinopsis (sea urchin)
| Echinopsis Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Echinopsis from Sudan, perforated specimen to be threaded. On display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Camarodonta |
| Family: | †Glyphocyphidae |
| Genus: | †Echinopsis Agassiz, 1840 |
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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