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Lovenia

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Lovenia
Lovenia woodsi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Spatangoida
Family: Loveniidae
Genus: Lovenia
Gray, 1825
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Lovenia is a genus of sea urchin that is the sister taxon to Breynia and Echinocardium.[1]

Lovenia kerneri was described in 2020 from the Pliocene Tamiami Formation in Florida.

It is the first documented Lovenia from the Eastern United States and the largest as well as the latest member of this genus known from the Eastern America/Caribbean region.

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References

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  1. ^ "Staff directory | Natural History Museum" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Lovenia - Natural History Museum".
  3. ^ Philip, G. M. (1957). "Interambulacral Plate Atrophy in Lovenia woodsi (Etheridge Fil.)". Geological Magazine. 94 (5): 402–408. Bibcode:1957GeoM...94..402P. doi:10.1017/S0016756800069430.