Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Diplocidaridae
Parent taxon: Cidaroida according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Fell 1966, Kroh and Smith 2010, Smith 2009 and Vadet et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Cidaridea, Delocidaris, Fellius, Heterocidaridae, Hirudocidaris, Histocidaridea, Leurocidaris, Menocidaris, Mesodiadema, Mikrocidari, Minicidaris, Miocidaridae, Oedematocidaris, Palmerius, Paracidaridae, Polycidaridae, Prophyllacanthus, Rhabdocidaridae, Serpianotiaridae, Triadotiaridae
Subtaxa: Diplocidaris Tetracidaris
Type: Diplocidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (1 collection), Armenia (1), France (2), Portugal (2), Switzerland (8), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (10)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences