Subfamily Goniocidarinae Mortensen 1928 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Alternative spelling: Goniocidarina

Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London 1-551

Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010

See also Fell 1966, Mortensen 1928 and Smith 2009

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

Subtaxa: Austrocidaris Goniocidaris Ogmocidaris Psilocidaris Rhopalocidaris Schizocidaris

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Type: Goniocidaris

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

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (2 collections), Qatar (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1)

• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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