Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1801. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 8:1-432
Parent taxon: Clypeasteridae according to S. K. Donovan et al. 2005
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Durham 1955, Durham 1961, Durham 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Jackson 1937, Kew 1920, Kier 1997, Nisiyama 1968, Ragaini 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ammotrophinae, Arachnoidinae, Clypeasterinae, Diplothecanthus
Subtaxa: Clypeaster (Rhaphidoclypus) Clypeaster abruptus Clypeaster antillarum Clypeaster batheri Clypeaster bowersi Clypeaster butleri Clypeaster carrizoensis Clypeaster caudatus Clypeaster concavus Clypeaster cotteaui Clypeaster cubensis Clypeaster deserti Clypeaster europacificus Clypeaster excentricum Clypeaster gatuni Clypeaster herrerae Clypeaster humilis Clypeaster japonicus Clypeaster lanceolatus Clypeaster lopezriosi Clypeaster maoadentroensis Clypeaster meridanensis Clypeaster ochrus Clypeaster oxybaphon Clypeaster parrae Clypeaster parvus Clypeaster placentoides Clypeaster planipetalum Clypeaster reticulatus Clypeaster rogersi Clypeaster rosaceus Clypeaster rotundus Clypeaster saipanicus Clypeaster sanchezi Clypeaster speciosus Clypeaster subdepressus Clypeaster sunnilandensis Clypeaster topilanus Clypeaster virescens
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Eritrea (1), Jordan (3), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Egypt (3), Fiji (1), Mexico (3), Portugal (1), Taiwan (1), United States (15: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (4), the Dominican Republic (2), the Netherlands Antilles (4), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Australia (5), Austria (10), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (3), Colombia (5), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (11), the Dominican Republic (2), Egypt (7), Fiji (1), France (1), Greece (3), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (13), Jamaica (1), Libya (1), Malta (6), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (6), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Cuba (3), Haiti (1), India (3), Iran (2), Jamaica (3), Jordan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Oman (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), United States (21: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
• Eocene of Turkey (1), United States (2: Florida, Georgia)
Total: 193 collections including 242 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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