Stylocidaris (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Parent taxon: Cidarinae according to H. B. Fell 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Alpicidaris, Cyathocidaris, Leiocidaris, Phyllacanthus, Tretocidaris

Subtaxa: none

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

Distribution: found only at Golden Bay (Miocene of Malta)

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