Prenasteridae Lambert, 1905

Holmes, Francis C., 2011, A new species of Peribrissus (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) from the middle Miocene of South Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68, pp. 29-35 : 29

Family Prenasteridae Lambert, 1905

Remarks. The family Paleopneustidae A. Agassiz, 1904 , together with the families Pericosmidae , Schizasteridae and Prenasteridae , initially established as tribes within the family Brissidae by Lambert (1905, p. 153), allowed numerous spatangoid genera to be divided into groups based primarily on the distinctive path followed by their fascioles. Lambert and Thiéry (1925, pp. 514–515) listed Peribrissus Pomel, 1883 as a subgenus of Prenaster Desor, 1853 within the tribe Prenasterinae . However, in subsequent classifications of the Order Spatangoida by Mortensen (1951), Termier and Termier (1953), Durham and Melville (1957), Fischer (1966) and Smith (1984), the family Prenasteridae was not recognised, and Peribrissus and Prenaster were placed within the Schizasteridae . Not until Smith et al. (2005) and Smith and Stockley (2005) did the family Prenasteridae reappear in any subdivision of the Spatangoida . Finally, Kroh and Smith (2010) presented a primary framework for the classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids based on extant taxa into which fossil taxa have been incorporated. In this classification, Prenasteridae , Schizasteridae and Periasteridae form the Suborder Paleopneustina .