Echinoidea - Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Synonym: Koehleraster Lambert and Thiery 1921
Full reference: N. G. Leske. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum, edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum, G. E. Beer, Leipzig 1-278
Parent taxon: Echinoneidae according to S. K. Donovan et al. 2005
See also Cooke 1942, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Mancosu and Nebelsick 2017, Morishita 1964, Nisiyama 1966, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner and Durham 1966
Sister taxa: Amblypygus, Paleoechinoneus, Pygoyrina, Pyrina, Rhopostoma
Subtaxa: Echinoneus burgeri Echinoneus cyclostomus Echinoneus orbicularis Echinoneus robustus Koehleraster abnormalis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Taiwan (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Cuba (1), Portugal (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1)
• Oligocene of Cuba (1), Jamaica (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
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