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Cassiduloidea

Echinoidea - Cassiduloidea

Taxonomy
Cassiduloidea was named as an order. It is not extant.

It was reranked as the superfamily Cassiduloidea by Kew (1920).

It was assigned to Spatangina by Kew (1920); and to Echinoidea by Suter (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Cassiduloidea Kew p. 138
1994Cassiduloidea Suter

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
orderCassiduloidea
orderCassiduloidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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G. Conolampas Agassiz 1883
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Conolampas sigsbei Agassiz 1887
G. †Neolampas Agassiz 1869
G. †Oligopodia Duncan 1889
G. †Porterpygus Baker 1983
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Diet: grazerc
Diet 2: deposit feederc
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 12:05:24
Modified: 2010-02-12 04:00:29
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: Middle Miocene or 15.97000 to 11.60800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 11.608 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Fiji Oligopodia tapeina (68292)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Italy (Sardinia) Conolampas sp. (187333)