Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Miocidaridae
Full reference: J. W. Durham and R. V. Melville. 1957. A classification of Echinoids. Journal of Paleontology 31:242-272
Parent taxon: Cidaroida according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Fell 1966, Hagdorn 1995, Kier 1968, Kroh and Smith 2010 and Nisiyama 1966
Sister taxa: Cidaridea, Delocidaris, Diplocidaridae, Fellius, Heterocidaridae, Hirudocidaris, Histocidaridea, Leurocidaris, Menocidaris, Mesodiadema, Mikrocidari, Minicidaris, Oedematocidaris, Palmerius, Paracidaridae, Polycidaridae, Prophyllacanthus, Rhabdocidaridae, Serpianotiaridae, Triadotiaridae
Subtaxa: Anaulocidaris Aplocidaris Couvelardicidaris Dicyclocidaris Eotiaris Miocidaris Pachycidaris Panniericidaris Permocidaris Procidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (2 collections), Germany (2), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (17)
• Triassic of Canada (5: British Columbia), China (5), East Timor (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (5), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Germany (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (6: Texas)
Total: 91 collections including 101 occurrences