Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1839. Description des Echinodermes fossiles de la Suisse; première partie, Spatangoides et Clypéasteroides. Mémoires de la Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles 3:1-101
Parent taxon: Toxasteridae according to C. G. Barras 2007
See also Fischer 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adytaster, Aphelaster, Douvillaster, Enallaster, Enallopneustes, Heteraster, Isaster, Macraster, Mokotibaster, Polydesmaster
Subtaxa: Toxaster fittoni Toxaster retusus
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), China (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (3), France (119), Madagascar (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (5), Portugal (20), Spain (3), Switzerland (12), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (14)
Total: 187 collections including 203 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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