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Echinolampas

Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae

Taxonomy

Echinolampas was named by Gray (1825) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than R Sepkoski's reference number: 577]. It is extant. Its type is Echinanthus ovatus.

It was assigned to Cassidulidae by Clark and Twitchell (1915); to Echinoidea by Durham (1961); to Cassiduloida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Echinolampadidae by Cooke (1942), Kier (1962), Kier (1966), Nisiyama (1968), Kier (1980), Squires and Demetrion (1992), Ragaini (1994) and Osborn et al. (2016).

Species lacking formal opinion data

E. amplus, E. convacus, E. depressa, E. discoideus, E. lycopsericus, E. tanypetalis, E. turmulus

Synonyms

Palaeolampas was named by Bell (1880).

It was synonymized subjectively with Echinolampas by Smith (2009).

It was assigned to Echinoidea by Sanchez-Roig (1953).
Hypsoclypus was named by Pomel (1869). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Echinolampas by Kier (1966).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1825	Echinolampas Gray
1869	Hypsoclypus Pomel p. 25
1880	Palaeolampas Bell p. 43
1915	Echinolampas Clark and Twitchell p. 149
1942	Echinolampas Cooke p. 37
1953	Palaeolampas Sanchez-Roig p. 150
1961	Echinolampas Durham p. 481
1962	Echinolampas Kier p. 106
1966	Echinolampas Kier p. U506
1968	Echinolampas Nisiyama p. 11
1980	Echinolampas Kier p. 21
1992	Echinolampas Squires and Demetrion p. 45
1994	Echinolampas Ragaini p. 289
2002	Echinolampas Sepkoski
2016	Echinolampas Osborn et al. p. 46

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Echinozoa	()
class	Echinoidea	()

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea	()
—	Carinacea
—	Irregularia	()
—	Microstomata
—	Neognathostomata
order	Echinolampadoida
family	Echinolampadidae
genus	Echinolampas	Gray 1825

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Echinolampas Gray 1825

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Subg. †Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas) Lambert 1918

†Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas) altissima Clark 1927

†Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas) sandiegensis Sanchez-Roig 1953

Subg. †Echinolampas (Cypholampas) Lambert 1906

†Echinolampas (Cypholampas) eocenicus Sanchez-Roig 1953

Subg. †Echinolampas (Progonolampas) Bittner 1892

†Echinolampas (Progonolampas) moronensis Sanchez-Roig 1953

†Echinolampas (Progonolampas) torrense Sanchez-Roig 1953

†Echinolampas aldrichi Clark and Twitchell 1915

†Echinolampas alexandri Loriol 1876

†Echinolampas andalusiensis Osborn et al. 2016

†Echinolampas anguillae Cotteau 1875

†Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858

†Echinolampas atascaderensis Brighton 1926

†Echinolampas bombos Nisiyama 1968

†Echinolampas brachytona Clark 1927

†Echinolampas castroi Cotteau 1881

†Echinolampas clevei Cotteau 1875

†Echinolampas consolationis Sanchez-Roig 1953

†Echinolampas fraasi de Loriol 1880

†Echinolampas lechoni Cotteau 1880

†Echinolampas leymeriei Cotteau 1853

†Echinolampas lycopersicus Guppy 1866

†Echinolampas mestrei Sanchez Roig 1926

†Echinolampas ovalis Bory de Saint-Vincent 1824

Echinolampas ovatus Leske 1778

†Echinolampas oviformis Gmelin 1789

†Echinolampas oviformis jacquemonti d'Archiac and Haime 1854

†Echinolampas perrieri de Loriol 1880

†Echinolampas posterocrassus Gregory 1890

†Echinolampas raulini Cotteau 1863

†Echinolampas semiorbis Guppy 1866

†Echinolampas tumulus McNamara and Kendrick 1994

†Echinolampas woodringi Durham 1961

†Echinolampas yoshiwarai Loriol 1902

Invalid names: Hypsoclypus Pomel 1869 [synonym], Palaeolampas Bell 1880 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calcitec

Ontogeny:

accretion, addition of partsp

Environment:

marinep

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalc

Diet:

grazerc

Diet 2:

deposit feederc

Vision:

limitedc

Dispersal:

waterp

Dispersal 2:

planktonicp

Created:

2004-02-28 12:05:24

Modified:

2010-02-12 04:00:29

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Selandian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 61.60000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 56.0 Ma

Collections (150 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian - Thanetian	61.6 - 56.0	Mali	Hypsoclypus sp. (209421)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Mexico (Baja California)	E. sp. (5506)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	France	E. leymeriei (59788)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Peru	E. atascaderensis (203222)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Cuba	E. castroi (91162)
Eocene - Oligocene	56.0 - 23.03	Cuba	E. consolationis (155861)
Waipawan	55.8 - 53.0	New Zealand	E. sp. (52558)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	Pakistan	E. nummulitica (77304)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Turkey	E. escheri (40792) E. escheri, E. affinis, E. burdigalensis, E. calvimontanus (40793)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Egypt	E. africanus (41904) E. africanus, E. perrier (41906) E. africanus, E. perroer (41905) E. sp. (76988)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Libya (Ajdabiya)	E. fraasi, E. perrieri (42129)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Qatar	E. fraasi (209107) E. leymeriei, E. ovalis, E. perrieri (209106) E. perrieri (209101 209104)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Libya	E. crameri, E. africanus (42127) E. crameri, E. globulus, E. fraasi (49943) E. sp. (42123 42138)
Lutetian - Bartonian	47.8 - 38.0	Egypt	E. africanus (41899)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	India (Assam)	E. discoideus (81937)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	Libya	E. cherichiensis (42139)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	USA (North Carolina)	E. appendiculatus (41922)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	Cuba	E. brachytona, E. eocenicus, E. altissima, Palaeolampas plateia, Palaeolampas alta, E. sandiegensis (155852)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	Egypt	E. crameri (41918 42057) E. fraasi (45626) E. globulus (42053) E. humei (42051)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	USA (North Carolina)	E. appendiculata (5367 5375 5376 5377 5378 5379 5381 5383 5384 5386 5436 5437 5438 5439 5440 5441 5442 5459 60452)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	Turkey	E. politus, E. baldacci (40794)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	USA (Alabama)	E. andalusiensis (204728) E. sp. (3509 3510)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Germany (Bavaria)	E. beaumontii (10963)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Libya	E. chiesai, E. perroero, E. africanus, E. libycus (42144) E. sp. (77237)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Egypt	E. crameri (79700)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	Egypt	E. crameri (40516)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Georgia)	E. sp. (57926)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Florida)	E. sp. (34992) E. tanypetalis (73586)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Jamaica	E. lycopersicus (7216) E. lycopsericus (7215)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Iran	E. amplus (192044)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Jordan (Al Azraq)	E. cherichirensis (121549)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	USA (Mississippi)	E. aldrichi (155961 155962 155963 155964 155965 155966)
Oligocene	33.9 - 23.03	Cuba	E. lycopersicus (91163)
Late/Upper Oligocene	28.4 - 23.03	Antigua and Barbuda	E. anguillae (80290)
Late/Upper Oligocene	28.4 - 23.03	Cuba	E. moronensis (155863) E. torrense (155862)
Late/Upper Oligocene	28.4 - 23.03	USA (Alabama)	E. aldrichi (155954 155955 155956 155957 155958 155959 155960)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene	28.4 - 15.97	Malta (Qammieh)	E. equizonata (121526)
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene	28.4 - 15.97	Malta	E. equizonata, E. posterolatus (121529) E. posterolatus (121535 121540) E. posterolatus, E. equizonata (121537)
Aquitanian	23.03 - 20.44	Panama	E. semiorbis (42627 145562)
Aquitanian - Burdigalian	23.03 - 15.97	Italy (Sardinia)	E. sp. (187425) E. sp., Hypsoclypus sp. (187424) Hypsoclypus sp. (187426 187427 187428)
Aquitanian - Burdigalian	23.03 - 15.97	Libya	E. orlebari (42130)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Brazil (Para)	E. oliveirai, E. paraensis (65162)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Italy	E. angulata (96227 96232) E. angulata, E. montesiensis, E. plagiosoma (96228) E. angulata, E. plagiosoma (96230 96231) E. sp. (96229)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Tanzania	E. sp. (42400)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Northern Mariana Islands	E. convacus (43368)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Portugal	E. sp. (198864)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.03 - 11.608	Cuba	E. anguillae (91164) E. clevei (91145) E. lycopersicus (91147) E. mestrei, E. semiorbis (91139)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.03 - 11.608	Italy	E. angulata, E. plagiostoma (96234) E. plagiostoma, E. angulata (96235) E. plagiostoma, E. angulata, E. montesiensis (96236)
Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene	23.03 - 5.333	Costa Rica	E. woodringi (92098)
Miocene	23.03 - 5.333	Colombia	E. sp. (73796 73797)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Egypt	E. ampla (47992 47994) E. sp. (47993 48004)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	France	E. scutiformis (59265)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Pakistan (Balochistan)	E. indica (77783)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	Austria	E. hemisphaericus (146502) E. manzonii (146523)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Italy (Sardinia)	E. sp. (187332)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Italy	E. pseudoangulata (96241)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Australia (Western Australia)	E. tumulus (63288 63289 63290 63292 63293) E. turmulus (63306)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Egypt	E. sp. (42060)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	Spain	E. sp. (34469)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	France	E. hemisphaerica (34609)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Moldova	E. studeri (78661 78666)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Bosnia and Herzegovina	E. sp. (54126)
Tortonian - Messinian	11.62 - 5.333	Italy	E. deshayesi (70493)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)	E. spheroidalis, E. jacquemonti (41473)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Morocco	E. sp. (70889)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Malta	E. sp. (140979 141543)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Algeria	E. hemisphaerica (70881) E. sp. (70886)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Spain	E. deshayesi (56687)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Mexico (Baja California Sur)	E. sp. (44035)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Barbados	E. depressa (48021)