Echinoidea - Diadematoida - Diadematidae
Alternative spelling: Cidarites (Diadema)
Parent taxon: Diadematidae according to A. B. Smith 2009
See also Fell 1966, Geys 1980 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Australidiadema, Centrostephanus, Echinothrix, Eodiadema, Kierechinus, Mesodiadema, Palaeodiadema, Pedinothuria, Sierradiadema
Subtaxa: Diadema depressum Diadema pseudodiadema Diadema subangulare
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Eritrea (1 collection), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Saudi Arabia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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