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Suborder Scutellina Haekel, 1896, p. 231

Diagnosis	Clypeasteroids with: internal buttressing present; variably developed; petaloid areas composed of simple primary plates throughout; perignathic girdle consisting of five interradial pegs.
Range	Lower Eocene to Recent; worldwide.
Remarks	The following genus probably belongs here but cannot be placed with certainty: Tournoueraster Lambert, in Lambert & Thiery 1914, p. 294