Tretocidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Cidarinae according to H. B. Fell 1966
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alpicidaris, Cyathocidaris, Leiocidaris, Phyllacanthus, Stylocidaris
Subtaxa: Tretocidaris dubia Tretocidaris perplexa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Funtanazza A7 (Miocene to Miocene of Italy)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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