Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Full reference: G. Stefanini. 1924. Relations between American and European Tertiary echinoid faunas. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 35:827-846
Parent taxon: Protoscutellidae according to J. W. Durham 1955
See also Cooke 1942, Durham 1966, Kier 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Mortonella, Periarchus
Subtaxa: Protoscutella conradi Protoscutella mississippiensis Protoscutella pentagonium Protoscutella plana
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Eocene of United States (42: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 43 collections including 46 occurrences
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