Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Full reference: J. W. Gregory. 1900. The Echinoidea. A Treatise on Zoology. Part III. The Echinodermata, A. & C. Black, London 282-332
Parent taxon: Salenioida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Donovan 1993, Fell and Pawson 1966 and Vadet et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Eurysalenia, Goniophoridae, Hyposaleniidae, Pseudosaleniidae, Saleniidae
Subtaxa: Acrosalenia Heterosalenia Holosaleniini Milnia Monodiadema Polysalenia Pseudosalenia Recrosalenia
Type: Acrosalenia
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mexico (1 collection), United States (1: Virgin Islands)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Jamaica (3), Switzerland (4)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (3), France (5), Italy (1), Kenya (2), Poland (6), Saudi Arabia (41), Somalia (3), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (26), the United Kingdom (12), Yemen (5)
Total: 116 collections including 140 occurrences