†Polycidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Parent taxon: Polycidaridae according to B. Hostettler and U. Menkveld-Gfeller 2015
See also Fell 1966, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith 2015
Sister taxa: Nudicidaris, Paracidaris, Romanocidaris
Subtaxa: Polycidaris escheri Polycidaris gygii Polycidaris ilminsterensis Polycidaris legayi Polycidaris regularis Polycidaris spinosa Polycidaris spinulosa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), Germany (4), Luxembourg (1), Poland (2), Switzerland (5), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
Total: 22 collections including 25 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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