Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Full reference: W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341
Belongs to Echinolampas according to C. W. Cooke 1959
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915
Sister taxa: Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas), Echinolampas (Cypholampas), Echinolampas (Progonolampas), Echinolampas alexandri, Echinolampas andalusiensis, Echinolampas anguillae, Echinolampas appendiculata, Echinolampas atascaderensis, Echinolampas bombos, Echinolampas brachytona, Echinolampas castroi, Echinolampas clevei, Echinolampas consolationis, Echinolampas fraasi, Echinolampas lechoni, Echinolampas leymeriei, Echinolampas lycopersicus, Echinolampas mestrei, Echinolampas ovalis, Echinolampas ovatus, Echinolampas oviformis, Echinolampas perrieri, Echinolampas posterocrassus, Echinolampas raulini, Echinolampas semiorbis, Echinolampas tumulus, Echinolampas woodringi, Echinolampas yoshiwarai, Palaeolampas plateia, Palaeolampas alta, Hypsoclypus lucae
Type specimen: USNM 55990, a test. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 10050 - Gainestown [Chickasawhay Lmst], which is in an Oligocene marine limestone in the Chickasawhay Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (13: Alabama, Mississippi collections)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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