Echinoidea - Euechinoidea - Glyphopneustidae

Full reference: A. B. Smith and C. W. Wright. 1993. British Cretaceous echinoids. Part 3, Stirodonta 2 (Hemicidaroida, Arbacioida and Phymosomatoida, Part 1). Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 147(593):199-267

Parent taxon: Echinacea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010

See also Smith 1995

Sister taxa: Arbacioida, Besairiecidaris, Bramus, Camarodonta, Crinocidaris, Plesiocidaroida, Stirodonta, Stomopneustoida, Temnopleuroidea

Subtaxa: Glyphopneustes

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Type: Glyphopneustes

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Jebel Rawdah, Facies 3, bed 11, Petalobrissus assemblage (Cretaceous of Oman)

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