Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Alternative spelling: Cidaris (Eucidaris)
Parent taxon: Stereocidarinae according to S. Nisiyama 1966
See also Fell 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Desoricidaris, Finnacidaris, Goniocidarina, Phalacrocidaris, Sinaecidaris, Temnocidaris
Subtaxa: Eucidaris metularia Eucidaris zeamays
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Jamaica (1), Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Portugal (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), Fiji (1), Italy (3), Ukraine (1), United States (4: California)
• Eocene of New Zealand (9)
Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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