Suborder Clypeastrina (sea urchin)
Parent taxon: Exocycloida according to W. S. W. Kew 1920
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915 and Grant and Hertlein 1938
Sister taxon: Spatangina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Clypeastrina in the database