Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Scutellidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1825. An attempt to divide the Echinida, or Sea Eggs, into natural families. Annals of Philosophy, new series 10:423-431
Parent taxon: Scutelliformes according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Clark 1904, Clark and Arnold 1923, Durham 1955, Durham 1966, Kew 1920 and Turner 1938
Sister taxa: Abertellidae, Astriclypeidae, Dendrasteridae, Echinarachniidae, Eoscutellidae, Mellitidae, Monophorasteridae, Placatenellidae, Protoscutellidae, Rotulidae, Scutasteridae, Taiwanasteridae
Subtaxa: Parascutella Parmulechinus Scutella
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Egypt (4), France (2), Japan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), United States (9: California, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (5)
• Oligocene of Iran (1), Libya (2)
• Eocene of United States (3: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: California)
Total: 35 collections including 36 occurrences