Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Alternative spelling: Micrasterinae
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1920. Etude sur quelques formes primitives de Spatangidés. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l’Yonne 73:1-41
Parent taxon: Micrasterina according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fischer 1966 and Parma and Casadío 2005
Sister taxa: Aeropsidae, Ovulasteridae, Plesiasteridae
Subtaxa: Brissopneustes Cyclasterinae Diplodetus Habanaster Isopneustes Micraster Ovulaster Roweaster
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Austria (3), Belgium (7), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (2), France (11), Germany (41), Japan (2), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (64), Tunisia (2), Turkmenistan (10), the United Kingdom (4), United States (15: Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 180 collections including 220 occurrences