Echinoidea - Salenioida - Hyposaleniidae
Alternative spelling: Hyposaleniinae
Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1934. New Echinoidea (Preliminary Notice). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Danks naturhistorisk Forening i København 98:161-167
Parent taxon: Salenioida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fell and Pawson 1966
Sister taxa: Acrosaleniidae, Eurysalenia, Goniophoridae, Pseudosaleniidae, Saleniidae
Subtaxa: Goniophorus Hyposalenia Idiocidaris Peltastes Poropeltaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Austria (1 collection), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of the Dominican Republic (1), France (23), Morocco (2), Switzerland (8), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 51 collections including 61 occurrences