Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Alternative spelling: Amblypgus
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel 1-20
Parent taxon: Echinoneidae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Sepkoski 2002, Villier 2010 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Echinoneus, Paleoechinoneus, Pygoyrina, Pyrina, Rhopostoma
Subtaxa: Amblypygus (Paramblypygus) Amblypygus americanus Amblypygus depressus Amblypygus subhemisphericus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Eocene of Cote D'Ivoire (3), Cuba (1), France (1), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Georgia)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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