Chondrocidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Rhabdocidarinae according to S. Nisiyama 1966
See also Fell 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Megacidaris, Parhabdocidaris, Plococidaris, Porocidaris
Subtaxa: Chondrocidaris marianica
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Fiji (3 collections), Micronesia (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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