Synonym: Abelleicidaris Vadet 1991
Parent taxon: Cidaridea according to E. A. Bischof et al. 2018
See also Fell 1966, Hostettler and Menkveld-Gfeller 2015, Ragaini 1994, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 2009 and Smith 2015
Sister taxa: Cidaridae, Ctenocidaridae, Paurocidaris, Psychocidaridae
Subtaxa: Plegiocidaris bradfordensis Plegiocidaris coronata Plegiocidaris coronatus Plegiocidaris crucifera Plegiocidaris platyspina Plegiocidaris saemanni
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), France (6), Germany (6), Madagascar (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (2), Switzerland (15), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), Yemen (1)
• Triassic of Hungary (1)
Total: 62 collections including 64 occurrences
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