Family Histocidaridae Mortensen 1928 (pencil urchin)
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Histocidaridae
Alternative spellings: Histocidarina, Histocidarinae
Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London 1-551
Parent taxon: Histocidaridea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fell 1966, Grawe-Baumeister et al. 2000, Mortensen 1928 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Poriocidaris
Type: Histocidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence