Family Palaeotropidae Lambert 1896 (heart urchin)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Palaeotropidae
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1896. Notes sur quelques Echinides Crétacés de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Série 3 24:313-332
Parent taxon: Brissidina according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
Sister taxa: Antillasteridae, Asterostomatidae, Brissidae, Spatangidea
Subtaxa: Palaeotropus
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Palaeotropidae in the database