Chondrocidaris (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Parent taxon: Rhabdocidarinae according to S. Nisiyama 1966

See also Fell 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Megacidaris, Parhabdocidaris, Plococidaris, Porocidaris

Subtaxa: Chondrocidaris marianica

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

Distribution:

• Miocene of Fiji (3 collections), Micronesia (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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