Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Synonym: Penesticta Pomel 1883
Parent taxon: Cassidulidae according to W. S. W. Kew 1920
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Kier 1962, Kier 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Breynella, Cassidulus, Echanthus, Hypsopygaster, Nucleopygus, Ochetes, Rhyncholampas, Stigmatopygus
Subtaxa: Catopygus bargesii Catopygus cajonensis Catopygus californicus Catopygus carinatus Catopygus mississippiensis Catopygus pusillus Catopygus rodriguezi
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (3), Cuba (1), France (20), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (3: Mississippi, New Jersey)
Total: 47 collections each including a single occurrence
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