Echinoidea - Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Parent taxon: Phymosomatidae according to J. F. Geys 1982
See also Cooke 1959, Fell and Pawson 1966, Geys 1980, Parma and CasadÃo 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthechinus, Actinophyma, Aeolopneustes, Cosmocyphus, Dixieus, Glyptocidaris, Glyptocyphus, Hemithylus, Jacquiertia, Lambertechinus, Leptechinus, Micropsis, Narindechinus, Phymosoma, Phymosomatinae, Pleurodiadema, Plistophyma, Polyplacidia, Porosoma, Rachiosoma, Thylechinus, Winkleria
Subtaxa: Gauthieria menuthiae Gauthieria mosae Gauthieria pseudoradiata Gauthieria radiata Gauthieria sanchezi Gauthieria spatulifera Gauthieria speciosa
Type: Cyphosoma radiatum
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), the Netherlands (2), United States (3: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (29), France (1), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (15)
Total: 56 collections including 65 occurrences
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