Family Scutellidae Gray 1825 (sand dollar)

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

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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

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