†suborder Phymosomatoida Mortensen 1904 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Calycina

Alternative spellings: Phymosomatoina, Phymosomina

Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1904. The Danish Expedition to Siam 1899–1900. III. Echinoidea (1). Kongelige Danske Videnskabelige Selskabs, Skrifter 7(1):1-124

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

See also Fell and Pawson 1966, Linder et al. 1988, Manso and Andrade 2008, Nisiyama 1966, Parma and Casadío 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 1991 and Smith 1995

Sister taxa: Salenioida, Salenocidaris

Subtaxa: Boletechinus Cottaldia Diplopodiidae Emiratiidae Gauthiosoma Heterodiadematidae Leioechinus Phymosomatidae Polydiadematidae Trochotiara Zeugopleurus

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections)

• Miocene of Cuba (1)

• Oligocene of Japan (1), United States (2: North Carolina, Oregon)

• Eocene of Cuba (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Qatar (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Denmark (3), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Nigeria (1), United States (3: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)

• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Belgium (34), Bolivia (3), Brazil (12), Bulgaria (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (30), France (30), Germany (4), Hungary (3), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (20), Nigeria (1), Portugal (16), Spain (13), Switzerland (21), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (13: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of France (6), Germany (4), India (3), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (2), Poland (10), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (17), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (1: California)

Total: 315 collections including 408 occurrences

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