Biology:Asterostomatidae

Short description: Extinct family of sea urchins

Asterostomatidae Temporal range: From Eocene to Miocene 55.8–5.332 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Prosostoma jimenoi from Cuba, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Spatangoida
Suborder:	Brissidina
Family:	†Asterostomatidae Pictet, 1857

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

Genera

• Antillaster
• Asterostoma
• Brissolampas
• Brissomorpha
• Cleistechinus
• Heterobrissus
• Megapetalus
• Moronaster
• Platybrissus
• Prosostoma
• Pygospatangus

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3458296 entry