Rotulidae

Rotulidae
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Rotula deciesdigitatus from Sao Tomé.
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Rotulina
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Rotulidae

Gray, 1855
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Rotulidae is a family of small sand dollars native to the Atlantic coast of Africa, with 3 genera, with Rotula and Heliophora being extant, the other, Rotuloidea, being extinct since the Pliocene, but all three being found in the fossil record along the Atlantic African coast since the Miocene.