Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Temnopleuridae
Full reference: A. Agassiz. 1872. Revision of the Echini. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 3:1-378
Parent taxon: Temnopleuridea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fell and Pawson 1966, Lindley 2001, Nisiyama 1966 and Ragaini 1994
Sister taxa: Glyphocyphidae, Trigonocidaridae, Zeuglopleuridae
Subtaxa: Amblypneustes Desmechinus Echinocyphus Genocidaris Glyptechinus Goniosigma Grammechinus Graphepleurus Irenechinus Leiocyphus Leptopleurus Martinechinus Microcyphus Opechinus Ortholophus Paradoxechinus Printechinus Prionechinus Pseudarbacina Pseudechinus Pseudodicoptella Salmacis Scolechinus Temnechinus Temnopleurinae Temnotrema Triplacidia Zeuglopleurus
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (7 collections)
• Pliocene of Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Qatar (1), South Africa (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), Turkey (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), Germany (1)
Total: 28 collections including 34 occurrences