Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Alternative spelling: Disaster (Nucleolites)
Synonym: Echinobrissus Gray 1825 [objective synonym]
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: Nucleolitidae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Jesionek-Szymanska 1963, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Maury 1936, Poretskaya 1971 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Clypeopygus, Hemicara, Heteronucleus, Hypopygurus, Oolopygus, Phyllobrissus, Plagiochasma, Pseudonucleus, Pseudosorella, Pygaulus, Pygopistes, Pygorhynchus
Subtaxa: Echinobrissus ammonis Echinobrissus angustatus Echinobrissus atlanticus Echinobrissus clunicularis Echinobrissus elongatus Echinobrissus expansus Echinobrissus lefebvrei Echinobrissus orbicularis Echinobrissus pilensis Echinobrissus terquemi Nucleolites hori Nucleolites scutatus
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Libya (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2), France (3), Gabon (1), Peru (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (7), USSR (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Armenia (1), France (11), Germany (2), Poland (8), Saudi Arabia (2), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (35)
Total: 86 collections including 97 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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