Echinoidea - Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Synonym: Cyphosoma Agassiz 1838 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Phymosomatidae according to C. L. C. Manso and E. J. Andrade 2008
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1941, Cooke 1953, Fell and Pawson 1966, Geys 1980, Maury 1936, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 1991, Smith 1995 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Acanthechinus, Actinophyma, Aeolopneustes, Cosmocyphus, Dixieus, Gauthieria, Glyptocidaris, Glyptocyphus, Hemithylus, Jacquiertia, Lambertechinus, Leptechinus, Micropsis, Narindechinus, Phymosomatinae, Pleurodiadema, Plistophyma, Polyplacidia, Porosoma, Rachiosoma, Thylechinus, Winkleria
Subtaxa: Cyphosoma canali Cyphosoma riograndensis Cyphosoma volanum Phymosoma baylei Phymosoma binexilis Phymosoma corneti Phymosoma dixie Phymosoma gehrdenense Phymosoma gigantea Phymosoma hexoaporum Phymosoma hilli Phymosoma maastrichtensis Phymosoma peloria Phymosoma princeps
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), Germany (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (3), Brazil (10), Bulgaria (1), Egypt (19), France (13), Germany (3), Hungary (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Portugal (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (4), USSR (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Poland (3)
Total: 78 collections including 85 occurrences
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