Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Synonyms: Lovenia (Vasconaster) Lambert 1915, Vasconaster Lambert 1915
Parent taxon: Loveniidae according to R. A. Henderson 1975
See also Cooke 1942, Fischer 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Jackson 1937 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Breynia, Breyninae, Chuniola, Echinocardiidae, Echinocardium, Hemipatagus, Mazettia, Verbeekia
Subtaxa: Lovenia (Lovenia) Lovenia alabamensis Lovenia cordiformis Lovenia dumblei Lovenia forbesii Lovenia lorioli Lovenia madurae Lovenia mauritanica Lovenia mexicana Lovenia vicentina Lovenia woodsii
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Fiji (7), Italy (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (3)
• Oligocene of Mexico (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Eocene of Mexico (1)
Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences
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