Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1905. Notes sur quelques Echinides éocéniques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Catalogue descriptif des fossiles nummulitiques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Annales de l’Université de Lyon, Nouvelle Série, I. Sciences, Médecine 17:129-164
Parent taxon: Spatangidea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fischer 1966 and Kroh 2007
Sister taxa: Eupatangidae, Eurypataginae, Macropneustidae, Maretiidae, Megapneustidae, Spatangidae
Subtaxa: Breynia Breyninae Chuniola Echinocardiidae Echinocardium Hemipatagus Lovenia Mazettia Verbeekia
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: California, South Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Japan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (15: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Fiji (7), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (6), New Zealand (4), Switzerland (3), United States (2: Maryland)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Mexico (2), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), United States (7: Mississippi, North Carolina)
Total: 70 collections including 76 occurrences