The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, July 2011

Superorder Aulodonta Jackson, 1912, p. 202.

Classification and/or Status A name used to refer to regular euechinoids with grooved teeth except for the Echinothurioida (i.e., Micropygoida, Aspidodiadematoida, Pedinoida and Diadematoida).  As such it is paraphyletic and is not used here.
Remarks

Jackson, R. T. 1912. Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Palaeozoic species Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 7, 491 pp. 76 pls.