†family Disasteridae Gras 1848 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Disasteridae

Full reference: A. Gras. 1848. Description des oursins fossiles du département de l’Isère, prééedée de notions élémentaires sur l’organisation et la glossologie de cette classe de Zoophytes, et suive d’une notice géologique sur les divers terrains de l’Isère. Ch. Vellot et comp. édit. & Victor Masson, Grenoble & Paris 1-96

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

See also Smith 1995 and Wagner and Durham 1966

Sister taxa: Acrolusiidae, Asternata, Aulacopygus, Collyritidae, Holasteroida, Notidisaster, Orbigniana, Pycnasterides, Spatangoida, Sternata, Tithoniidae

Subtaxa: Acrolusia Cardiolampas Collyropsis Corthya Dialyaster Disaster Disasterinae Oustechinus Pygorhytinae

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Type: Disaster

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (6 collections), Hungary (4), Morocco (1), Portugal (11), Switzerland (3), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic of Algeria (3), Armenia (1), France (15), Germany (1), India (1), Iran (2), Poland (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), Yemen (1)

Total: 58 collections including 72 occurrences

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