†Balanocidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Stylocidarinae according to S. Nisiyama 1966
See also Fell 1966, Morishita 1964 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Firmacidaris
Subtaxa: Balanocidaris japonica Balanocidaris strombecki
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Egypt (1), France (1), Hungary (3), Spain (2)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (2), Portugal (3)
• Triassic of Greece (1), Italy (12)
Total: 30 collections including 32 occurrences
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