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†order Orthopsida Mortensen 1942 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Orthopsida

Alternative spelling: Orthopsina

Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1942. New Echinoidea (Camarodonta). Preliminary notice. Videnskabelige Meddelelsar Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn 106:225-232

Parent taxon: Echinacea according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966

Sister taxa: Arbacioida, Besairecidaris, Bramus, Camarodonta, Crinocidaris, Glyphopneustidae, Plesiocidaroida, Stomopneustoida

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer