Echinoidea - Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Parent taxon: Holectypidae according to E. S. Poretskaya 1971
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Coenholectypus, Coptodiscus, Discholectypus, Metholectypus
Subtaxa: Holectypus cragini Holectypus montalvensis Holectypus pealei Holectypus sarthacensis
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (3), France (7), Mexico (4), Portugal (10), Switzerland (6), the United Arab Emirates (1), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Armenia (1), China (1), France (1), Germany (2), Iran (1), Jordan (1), Madagascar (2), Poland (8), Saudi Arabia (17), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Texas, Wyoming), Yemen (1)
Total: 82 collections including 88 occurrences
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