Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Full reference: N. G. Leske. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum, edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum, G. E. Beer, Leipzig 1-278
Parent taxon: Conulidae according to A. B. Smith 1995
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Galeraster, Globator, Pygopyrina
Subtaxa: Conulus (Conulopyrina) Conulus (Conulus) Conulus antillensis Conulus douvillei Conulus elongatus Conulus raulini Conulus stephensoni
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Cuba (1 collection), Egypt (3), France (13), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Oman (1), Poland (1), Spain (10), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Texas)
Total: 48 collections including 53 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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