Porocidaris (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Rhabdocidarinae according to H. B. Fell 1966
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Chondrocidaris, Megacidaris, Parhabdocidaris, Plococidaris
Subtaxa: Porocidaris lopezi Porocidaris prior Porocidaris schmideli
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Cuba (1 collection), Egypt (2), Libya (1), Qatar (5)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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