Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Echinida Irregularia. Woodfall & Kinder, London 1-69
Parent taxon: Brissidina according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fischer 1966, McNamara 1992 and Ragaini 1994
Sister taxa: Antillasteridae, Asterostomatidae, Palaeotropidae, Spatangidea
Subtaxa: Arcaechinus Brissopatagus Brissopsidae Brissopsis Brissus Cionobrissus Cyclaster Eupatagus Fernandezaster Fourtaunia Gillechinus Gualtieria Hernandezaster Herreraster Hikelaster Hysteraster Lajanaster Macropneustes Mariania Mauritanaster Megapneustes Meoma Metalia Migliorinia Pharaonaster Plagiobrissus Plesiopatagus Radiobrissus Rhynobrissus Rojasia Stomaporus Taimanawa Trachypatagus
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mexico (1 collection), New Zealand (1), Palau (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Cuba (1), Egypt (2), Fiji (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Japan (4), Mexico (3), Portugal (1), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2), the Netherlands Antilles (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (10), Brazil (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (4), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (8), Japan (6), Malta (2), Micronesia (2), Moldova (3), New Zealand (6), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (3), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Australia (2), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), India (4), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), Somalia (1), United States (10: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (7)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Cuba (1), United States (1: Georgia)
• Eocene of Australia (4), Cuba (8), Egypt (3), France (1), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (5), Pakistan (1), Qatar (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (36: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Kazakhstan (1), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Cuba (1), France (3), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (2), Spain (4)
Total: 218 collections including 273 occurrences