Echinoidea - Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1840. Description des Echinodermes fossiles de la Suisse; Seconde partie. Cidarides. Mémoires de la Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles 4:1-97
Parent taxon: Acrosaleniidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Heterosalenia, Holosaleniini, Milnia, Monodiadema, Polysalenia, Pseudosalenia, Recrosalenia
Subtaxa: Acrosalenia hemicidaroides Acrosalenia lycetti Acrosalenia spinosa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Switzerland (4)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (2), Italy (1), Kenya (2), Poland (6), Saudi Arabia (29), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (12), Yemen (5)
Total: 64 collections including 78 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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