†family Faujasiidae Lambert 1905 (sand dollar)

Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae

Alternative spelling: Faujasidae

Full reference: J. Lambert. 1905. Notes sur quelques Echinides éocéniques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Catalogue descriptif des fossiles nummulitiques de l’Aude et de l’Hérault. Annales de l’Université de Lyon, Nouvelle Série, I. Sciences, Médecine 17:129-164

Parent taxon: Clypeasteroida according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010

See also Chiesa et al. 1995, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Manso and Andrade 2008, Smith 1991 and Smith 1995

Sister taxa: Clypeasterina, Conoclypeidae, Laganina, Oligopygidae, Plesiolampadidae, Prowillungaster, Rotulina, Runa, Scutellina, Tournoueraster, Willungaster

Subtaxa: Australanthus Domechinus Eurypetalum Faujasia Fauraster Gongrochanus Lefortia Petalobrissus Pygidiolampas Stigmatopyginae Zuffardia

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Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Georgia)

• Eocene of Cote D'Ivoire (2), Cuba (1), United States (5: Florida, Georgia)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Egypt (12), France (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Oman (8), Spain (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (15: Mississippi, Texas)

Total: 60 collections including 76 occurrences

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