Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Oligopygidae
Parent taxon: Oligopygidae according to C. D. Wagner and J. W. Durham 1966
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Haimea, Microlampas, Protolampas
Subtaxa: Oligopygus alvarezi Oligopygus floridanus Oligopygus haldermani Oligopygus herrari Oligopygus nancei Oligopygus ovumserpentis Oligopygus rotundus Oligopygus sanjosephi Oligopygus wetherbyi
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Cuba (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Cuba (4), Peru (1), United States (19: Alabama, Florida, Georgia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 30 collections including 35 occurrences
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