†Pedina (sea urchin)
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Echinoidea - Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Synonyms: Atlasaster, Hectopedina Thiery 1928, Megapedina Lambert and Thiery 1910
Parent taxon: Pedinidae according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Fell 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Caenopedina, Diademopsis, Dumblea, Echinopedina, Hemipedina, Leiopedina, Loriolipedina, Palaeopedina, Phalacropedina, Phymopedina, Pseudorthopsis, Stenechinus
Subtaxa: Pedina granulosa Pedina rotata Pedina salteri
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (3 collections), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (7)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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