Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Synonym: Anaster Sismonda 1841
Parent taxon: Fibulariidae according to J. W. Durham 1955
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Durham 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Kier 1968, Kier 1980, Kier 1997, Nisiyama 1968, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner 1974
Sister taxa: Cyamidia, Eoscutum, Fibularia, Fibulariella, Fibulaster, Lenicyamidia, Leniechinus, Lenita, Mortonia, Porpitella, Scutellina, Tarphypygus, Thagastea, Togocyamus
Subtaxa: Echinocyamus bisexus Echinocyamus chipolanus Echinocyamus crispus Echinocyamus huxleyanus Echinocyamus intermedius Echinocyamus meridionalis Echinocyamus parviporus Echinocyamus parvus Echinocyamus petalus Echinocyamus polymorpha Echinocyamus prostratus Echinocyamus pusillus Echinocyamus terminalis Echinocyamus texanus Echinocyamus vaughani Echinocyamus wilsoni
Type: Spatangus pusillus
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Italy (7), Madagascar (4), the Marshall Islands (1), Northern Mariana Islands (3), Poland (1), Somalia (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (1), the Marshall Islands (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), India (1), the Marshall Islands (4), United States (2: Georgia, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Libya (2), the Marshall Islands (4), Qatar (5), United States (19: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina)
Total: 69 collections including 71 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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