Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1851. Description of two new genera and some new species of Scutellidae and Echinolampidae in the Collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 19:34-38
Parent taxon: Echinolampadoida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Sanchez Roig 1926, Smith 1991 and Smith 1995
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Arnaudaster Echinolampas Parapygus Plesiolampas
Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (6), Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (4), Egypt (5), France (2), Italy (17), Libya (1), Malta (2), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Tanzania (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (5)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Cuba (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (2), Jordan (1), United States (13: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Cuba (1)
• Eocene of Cuba (2), Egypt (12), France (1), Germany (1), India (2), Libya (8), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Niger (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Qatar (4), Turkey (3), United States (26: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)
• Paleocene of Mali (8), Niger (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (3)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2), France (1), Iraq (1), Oman (5), Spain (1)
Total: 175 collections including 211 occurrences