Family Scutellidae Angas 1871
Parent taxon: Echinodermata according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Grant and Hertlein 1938
Sister taxa: Argonevis, Aspidocrinites, Blastozoa, Camptostromoidea, Carpoidea, Cincta, Corneotuba, Cornuvacites, Crinozoa, Ctenocystoidea, Ctenoimbricata, Cyclocystoidea, Echinosphaera, Edrioasteroidea, Eleutherozoa, Erinea, Fanerocoelia, Helicocystitidae, Helicoplacoidea, Homalozoa, Iheringiana, Limolepis, Nemotapis, Paracrinozoa, Pediculacaudinidae, Pelmatozoa, Radimonis, Scoteinocystis, Scutellinidae, Stylophora, Tubocaudinidae, Venerella
Subtaxa: none
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Scutellidae in the database