Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Alternative spelling: Arbaciadae
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: Arbacioida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Ali 1992, Berndt 2003, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Donovan 1993, Fell and Pawson 1966, Geys 1981, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Linder et al. 1988, Nisiyama 1966, Smith 1995 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Acropeltidae, Arbacioina, Dialithocidaris, Glypticidae, Goniopygidae, Pygmaeocidaris, Salenioina, Tetrapygus
Subtaxa: Acropeltis Acrosaster Arbacia Arbaciella Arbia Atopechinus Baueria Codiopsis Coelopleuridae Coelopleurus Echinocidaris Glypticus Goniopygus Hattopsis Heteropodia Magnosia Noetlingaster Pleiocyphus Podocidaris
Type: Arbacia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Japan (1), Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Mexico (1), United States (6: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Japan (1), Spain (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Oligocene of United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Eocene of France (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), France (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (3), Brazil (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (15), France (22), Hungary (1), Jamaica (7), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (7), Oman (9), Portugal (16), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (7), Switzerland (13), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Jurassic of France (4), Germany (2), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Switzerland (2)
Total: 162 collections including 202 occurrences