Family Neolampadidae Lambert 1918 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae

Full reference: J. Lambert. 1918. Considérations sur la classification des Echinides Atélostomes. I. Brachygnata et Procassiduloida. Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Agriculture des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du Département de l’Aube, Série 3 55:9-54

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

See also Durham and Wagner 1966

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aphanophora Notolampas Pisolampas Pliolampadidae

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Type: Neolampas

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Italy (3 collections), Madagascar (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (2)

• Oligocene of Cuba (1)

• Eocene of Australia (1), Cote D'Ivoire (2), Cuba (1), India (1), Jamaica (1), United States (37: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 52 collections including 66 occurrences

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