Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Parent taxon: Loveniidae according to A. Kroh 2007
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Hassan 1953 and Henderson 1975
Sister taxa: Breynia, Breyninae, Chuniola, Echinocardiidae, Echinocardium, Lovenia, Mazettia, Verbeekia
Subtaxa: Hemipatagus argutus Hemipatagus bandaensis Hemipatagus bundensis Hemipatagus calvimontanus Hemipatagus cartagensis Hemipatagus desmoulinsi Hemipatagus duncani Hemipatagus ficheuri Hemipatagus gauthieri Hemipatagus girundicus Hemipatagus grignonensis Hemipatagus guebhardi Hemipatagus hispanica Hemipatagus hoffmanni Hemipatagus marianii Hemipatagus martensii Hemipatagus nicoleti Hemipatagus ocellatus Hemipatagus pellati Hemipatagus regiomontanus Hemipatagus sambiensis Hemipatagus soubellensis Hemipatagus subrostratus Hemipatagus tenuis Hemipatagus tuberculatus
Type: Spatangus hoffmanni
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Belgium (1 collection), Greenland (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of United States (7: Mississippi, North Carolina)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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