Stylocidaris (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, Tretocidaris
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Golden Bay (Miocene of Malta)
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