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Hirudocidaris

Echinoidea - Cidaroida

Taxonomy
Hirudocidaris is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Cidaroida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Hirudocidaris Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
RankNameAuthor
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassCidaroidea(Claus 1880)
orderCidaroida()
genusHirudocidaris

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: grazero
Diet 2: omnivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-28 12:08:25
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:42:21
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Early/Lower Santonian or 129.40000 to 83.50000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian - Aptian129.4 - 113.0Algeria H. uniformis (40807)
Barremian - Aptian129.4 - 113.0Albania H. uniformis (40801 40804 40806)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0United Kingdom (England) H. hirudo (38322 38496)
Early/Lower Santonian85.8 - 83.5Spain H. corbaricus (74465)