Cidaris Leske 1778 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Synonyms: Calocidaris Clark 1907, Cidarites Lamarck 1816

Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to C. W. Cooke 1959

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1941, Fell 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Jackson 1937, Kew 1920, Linder et al. 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Centrocidaris, Cidarinae, Cidarini, Dorocidaris, Goniocidarinae, Hesperocidaris, Phyllacanthina, Prionocidaris, Rhabdocidarinae, Stereocidarinae, Stylocidarinae, Triassicidaris

Subtaxa: Cidaris (Bramus) Cidaris (Cidaris) Cidaris (Protocidaris) Cidaris (Vernius) Cidaris admeto Cidaris alabamensis Cidaris alata Cidaris alpis Cidaris baculifera Cidaris bechei Cidaris blandis Cidaris bowerbankii Cidaris branneri Cidaris californicus Cidaris catenifera Cidaris cojimarensis Cidaris cornaliae Cidaris cubensis Cidaris curioni Cidaris dilleri Cidaris dixiensis Cidaris fasciculata Cidaris flexuosa Cidaris fumagalli Cidaris georgiana Cidaris grandaeva Cidaris guembeli Cidaris klipsteini Cidaris liagora Cidaris lorenzanus Cidaris loveni Cidaris martinezensis Cidaris mazzettii Cidaris merriami Cidaris modestus Cidaris moereus Cidaris mortoni Cidaris omboni Cidaris ordinatus Cidaris parastadifera Cidaris perdubius Cidaris perornata Cidaris plumasensis Cidaris pratti Cidaris remiger Cidaris roemeri Cidaris schlonbachi Cidaris serrifera Cidaris shastensis Cidaris sinaiensis Cidaris smithi Cidaris splendens Cidaris subnobilis Cidaris subnodosa Cidaris taylorensis Cidaris tehamaensis Cidaris texanus Cidaris thouarsii Cidaris tribuloides Cidaris tubuloides Cidaris vafellus Cidaris wahalakensis Cidarites tribuloides

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Ecuador (1), France (1), Mexico (8), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), United States (2: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Cuba (3), Cyprus (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (10), Mexico (1), Spain (1), United States (2: California)

• Oligocene of India (1), New Zealand (1), Somalia (1), United States (3: California, Georgia, Puerto Rico)

• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Cuba (1), France (2), Libya (1), Poland (3), United States (34: Alabama, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (15: Alabama, California, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Albania (3), Algeria (1), Angola (1), Brazil (1), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (3), France (6), Germany (1), Hungary (4), Japan (1), Portugal (7), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (14), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (7: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Texas), Venezuela (2)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), France (21), Germany (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: California), Yemen (1)

• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (15), France (2), Germany (6), Hungary (6), Italy (33), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (5: Alaska, California)

• Permian of Italy (1)

Total: 293 collections including 405 occurrences

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