Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Astriclypeidae
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: Astriclypeidae according to J. W. Durham 1955
See also Durham 1966, Lindley 2001, Nagao 1928 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Echinodiscus bisperforatus Echinodiscus chikuzenensis Echinodiscus formosus Echinodiscus tiliensis Echinodiscus yeliuensis
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Japan (1)
• Oligocene of Japan (5)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Taiwan (1)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences
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