†Disaster (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Irregularia - Disasteridae

Parent taxon: Disasteridae according to A. B. Smith 1995

See also Jesionek-Szymanska 1963, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner and Durham 1966

Sister taxa: Acrolusia, Cardiolampas, Collyropsis, Corthya, Dialyaster, Disasterinae, Oustechinus, Pygorhytinae

Subtaxa: Disaster granulosus Disaster moeschi Disaster subelongatus Dysaster

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (5 collections)

• Jurassic of Algeria (2), France (12), Germany (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence

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