Austrocidaris Clark 1907 (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Goniocidarinae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Fell 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Goniocidaris, Ogmocidaris, Psilocidaris, Rhopalocidaris, Schizocidaris
Subtaxa: Austrocidaris seymourensis
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Seymour Island, Cape Wiman, La Meseta Formation, Telm 1 (Eocene of Antarctica)
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