†Diplocidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Diplocidaridae
Synonym: Rolliericidaris Vadet 1991
Parent taxon: Diplocidaridae according to E. A. Bischof et al. 2018
See also Fell 1966, Hostettler et al. 2017, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 2015 and Vadet et al. 2002
Sister taxon: Tetracidaris
Subtaxa: Diplocidaris bernasconii Diplocidaris crausiensis Diplocidaris desori Diplocidaris gigantea Diplocidaris undulata Diplocidaris wrightii
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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