Echinoidea - Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
Alternative spelling: Disaster (Nucleolites)
Synonym: Echinobrissus Gray 1825 [objective synonym]
Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1801. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 8:1-432
Parent taxon: Nucleolitidae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Jesionek-Szymanska 1963, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Maury 1936, Poretskaya 1971 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Clypeopygus, Hemicara, Heteronucleus, Hypopygurus, Oolopygus, Phyllobrissus, Plagiochasma, Pseudonucleus, Pseudosorella, Pygaulus, Pygopistes, Pygorhynchus
Subtaxa: Echinobrissus ammonis Echinobrissus angustatus Echinobrissus atlanticus Echinobrissus clunicularis Echinobrissus elongatus Echinobrissus expansus Echinobrissus lefebvrei Echinobrissus orbicularis Echinobrissus pilensis Echinobrissus terquemi Nucleolites hori Nucleolites scutatus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Libya (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2), France (3), Gabon (1), Peru (1), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (7), USSR (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Armenia (1), France (11), Germany (2), Poland (8), Saudi Arabia (2), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (35)
Total: 88 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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