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Asterostomatidae

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Asterostomatidae
Temporal range: from Eocene to Miocene 55.8–5.332 Ma [1]
Fossil of Prosostoma jimenoi from Cuba, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Echinoidea
Order:
Spatangoida
Suborder:
Asterostomatina
Family:
Asterostomatidae

Asterostomatidae is an extinct family of sea urchins belonging to the order Spatangoida.

They are slow-moving, shallow infaunal, or sediment-dwelling organisms, and are deposit feeders or detritivores. They lived during the Eocene and Miocene in what is now of Cuba, Cyprus and United States, from 55.8 to 5.332 Ma [1]

Genera

References

  1. ^ a b The Paleobiology Database


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