Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Alternative spelling: Nucleolites (Cassidulus)
Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1801. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 8:1-432
Parent taxon: Cassidulidae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Forbes 1846, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Kew 1920, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Nisiyama 1968 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Breynella, Catopygus, Echanthus, Hypsopygaster, Nucleopygus, Ochetes, Rhyncholampas, Stigmatopygus
Subtaxa: Cassidulus (Cassidulus) Cassidulus (Galerolampas) Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) Cassidulus abruptus Cassidulus amygdala Cassidulus caribaearum Cassidulus ellipticus Cassidulus gouldii Cassidulus mercedensis Cassidulus rojasi Cassidulus yoshiwarai Nucleolites (Cassidulus) elatus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida collections)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Alabama)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), Mexico (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Oligocene of Cuba (1), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Peru (1), United States (13: California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Nigeria (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), the Netherlands (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (2), United States (6: California)
Total: 47 collections including 49 occurrences
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