Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Stereocidarinae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Donovan 1993, Fell 1966, Geys 1990, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith 1991
Sister taxa: Desoricidaris, Eucidaris, Finnacidaris, Goniocidarina, Phalacrocidaris, Sinaecidaris
Subtaxa: Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) Temnocidaris baylei Temnocidaris danica Temnocidaris magnifica
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Denmark (1), the Netherlands (3), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Belgium (12), Brazil (1), Czechia (5), Egypt (3), France (20), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands (15), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (8), United States (2: Texas), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Armenia (1)
Total: 103 collections including 120 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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