Asterostomatidae
Sign in to saveAsterostomatidae is an extinct family of sea urchins belonging to the order Spatangoida.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Asterostomatidae is referenced by 2 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, Cuba and year.
It sits within the topics Eocene first appearances, Messinian extinctions and Prehistoric echinoderm families.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassEchinoidea
- OrderSpatangoida
- FamilyAsterostomatidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spatangoida
- Image
- Asterostomatidae - Prosostoma jimenoi.JPG
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- taxon name
- Asterostomatidae
- taxon rank
- family
- start time
- 55800000-0
- end time
- 5332000-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asterostomatidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.