Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Alternative spelling: Rabdocidaris
Synonyms: Callaudicidaris Vadet 1991, Dickesicidaris Vadet 1988
Parent taxon: Rhabdocidaridae according to E. A. Bischof et al. 2018
See also Fell 1966, Hess and Messing 2011, Hostettler et al. 2017, Hostettler and Menkveld-Gfeller 2015, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith 2015
Sister taxa: Histocidaris, Laurenticidaris
Subtaxa: Rhabdocidaris copeoides Rhabdocidaris deubelbeissi Rhabdocidaris fowleri Rhabdocidaris horrida Rhabdocidaris orbignyana Rhabdocidaris rauraca Rhabdocidaris sanchezi Rhabdocidaris subcoronata Rhabdocidaris thurmanni Rhabdocidaris zitteli
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Eocene of France (2), Germany (1), India (1), Qatar (3)
• Cretaceous of China (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Portugal (14), Spain (1), Switzerland (2)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), France (13), Germany (5), India (1), Luxembourg (1), Peru (1), Poland (7), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (24), Switzerland (7), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13)
• Triassic of Italy (8)
Total: 117 collections including 128 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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