Full reference: A. G. Fischer. 1966. Spatangoids. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U. Echinodermata. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Boulder and Lawrence 3(2):U543-U628
Parent taxon: Brissidina according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
Sister taxa: Antillasteridae, Asterostomatidae, Brissidae, Palaeotropidae
Subtaxa: Eupatangidae Eurypataginae Loveniidae Macropneustidae Maretiidae Megapneustidae Spatangidae
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Eritrea (1 collection), Japan (2), United States (2: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Japan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (17: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (7), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (13), New Zealand (5), Switzerland (3), United States (2: Maryland)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (2), United States (3: North Carolina, Texas)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (21: California, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Angola (11), Austria (1), France (7), Gabon (1), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (3), Turkmenistan (3), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Arkansas, Texas)
Total: 156 collections including 176 occurrences