Permocidaris forbesiana de Koninck 1863 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Miocidaridae

Alternative combinations: Cidaris forbesiana, Eocidaris forbesiana, Permocidaris forbesi

Full reference: L. G. de Koninck. 1863. Descriptions of some fossils from India, discovered by Dr. A. Fleming of Edinburgh. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19:1-19

Belongs to Permocidaris according to J. Lambert 1900

See also Clapham 2015, de Koninck 1863 and Waagen and Pichl 1885

Sister taxon: Permocidaris pakistanensis

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

Distribution:

• Permian of Pakistan (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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