Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Alternative spelling: Conulusidae
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1911. Description des échinides crétacés de la Belgique, principalement de ceux conservés au Musée royal de Bruxelles. II. Note sur les Echinides de l’étage Sénonien. Mémoire du Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 4:1-81
Parent taxon: Conulidea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Grant and Hertlein 1938, Smith 1995 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Galeritidae, Neoglobatoridae
Subtaxa: Conulus Galeraster Globator Pygopyrina
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Turkey (1 collection)
• Paleocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of Cuba (1), Egypt (4), France (18), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), Oman (8), Poland (1), Portugal (7), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (22), Turkey (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (7: Texas)
Total: 88 collections including 95 occurrences