Asterostomatidae
Asterostomatidae is an extinct family of sea urchins belonging to the order Spatangoida.
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| Fossil of Prosostoma jimenoi from Cuba, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Suborder: | Asterostomatina |
| Family: | Asterostomatidae |
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
- Antillaster
- Asterostoma
- Brissolampas
- Brissomorpha
- Cleistechinus
- Heterobrissus
- Megapetalus
- Moronaster
- Platybrissus
- Prosostoma
- Pygospatangus
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