Subfamily Sperosomatinae Smith and Wright 1990 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinothurioida - Echinothuriidae

Full reference: A. B. Smith and C. W. Wright. 1990. British Cretaceous echinoids. Part 2, Echinothurioida, Diadematoida and Stirodonta (1, Calycina). Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 143(583):101-198

Parent taxon: Echinothuriidae according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010

See also Smith and Wright 1990

Sister taxa: Araeosoma, Echinothuriinae, Hygrosomatinae

Subtaxa: Sperosoma

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Sperosomatinae in the database

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