Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Alternative spelling: Faujasidae
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: Clypeasteroida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Chiesa et al. 1995, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Manso and Andrade 2008, Smith 1991 and Smith 1995
Sister taxa: Clypeasterina, Conoclypeidae, Laganina, Oligopygidae, Plesiolampadidae, Prowillungaster, Rotulina, Runa, Scutellina, Tournoueraster, Willungaster
Subtaxa: Australanthus Domechinus Eurypetalum Faujasia Fauraster Gongrochanus Lefortia Petalobrissus Pygidiolampas Stigmatopyginae Zuffardia
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Cote D'Ivoire (2 collections), Cuba (1), United States (4: Florida, Georgia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Egypt (12), France (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Oman (8), Spain (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (15: Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 57 collections including 73 occurrences