Echinoidea - Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Alternative spelling: Pediniens
Full reference: A. Pomel. 1883. Classification méthodique des échinides vivants et fossiles. Adolphe Jourdan, Alger 1-131
Parent taxon: Pedinoida according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Fell 1966 and Kroh and Smith 2010
Sister taxa: Farquharsonia, Leptocidaris
Subtaxa: Caenopedina Diademopsis Dumblea Echinopedina Hemipedina Leiopedina Loriolipedina Palaeopedina Pedina Phalacropedina Phymopedina Pseudorthopsis Stenechinus
Type: Pedina
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), United States (4: Texas)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), France (11), Germany (4), Hungary (4), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Switzerland (4), the United Kingdom (39)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Peru (1)
• Triassic of Hungary (1), Italy (1), Oman (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 87 collections including 106 occurrences