Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Alternative spelling: Schizasterinae
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1905. Notes sur quelques Echinides éocéniques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Catalogue descriptif des fossiles nummulitiques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Annales de l’Université de Lyon, Nouvelle Série, I. Sciences, Médecine 17:129-164
Parent taxon: Paleopneustina according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Chiesa et al. 1995, Fischer 1966, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Jagt 2000, Parma and Casadío 2005, Smith 1995, Squires 1984, Squires 1987 and Squires 1999
Sister taxa: Paleopneustidea, Periasteridae, Prenasteridae
Subtaxa: Abatus Agassizia Aguayoaster Brisaster Brisasterinae Caribbaster Diploporaster Faorina Hemifaorina Hemigymnia Kina Lambertona Linthia Moira Opissaster Parabrissus Peribrissus Prenaster Proraster Pseudobrissus Schizaster Schizopneustes Tripylus
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (4: Florida, Maryland, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Fiji (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), Mexico (2), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (4), Brazil (2), Chile (4), Costa Rica (1), Egypt (1), India (2), Indonesia (3), Italy (12), Japan (5), Madagascar (2), Malta (2), Mexico (1), Micronesia (1), New Zealand (11), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (2), Qatar (1), Taiwan (2), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Germany (1), India (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (2), Somalia (1), United States (26: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Cote D'Ivoire (2), Cuba (3), Egypt (7), France (1), Germany (1), Haiti (1), India (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Libya (4), Mexico (8), New Zealand (8), Niger (1), Panama (2), Qatar (5), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (53: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Australia (1), Austria (2), Mali (6), the Netherlands (1), Niger (2), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Egypt (1), Oman (1), Spain (1), United States (43: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 339 collections including 404 occurrences