Dorocidaris Agassiz 1869 (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to C. W. Cooke 1941
See also Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Centrocidaris, Cidarinae, Cidarini, Cidaris, Goniocidarinae, Hesperocidaris, Phyllacanthina, Prionocidaris, Rhabdocidarinae, Stereocidarinae, Stylocidarinae, Triassicidaris
Subtaxa: Dorocidaris abyssicola Dorocidaris rugosa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Egypt (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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