Echinoidea - Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Alternative spelling: Hemipedina (Diademopsis)
Parent taxon: Pedinidae according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Fell 1966, Kier 1977 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Caenopedina, Dumblea, Echinopedina, Hemipedina, Leiopedina, Loriolipedina, Palaeopedina, Pedina, Phalacropedina, Phymopedina, Pseudorthopsis, Stenechinus
Subtaxa: Diademopsis bonei Diademopsis davidsoni Diademopsis desori Diademopsis heberti Diademopsis microgramma Diademopsis serialis Diademopsis tetragramma
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Belgium (1 collection), France (4), Germany (2), Hungary (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (11)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Peru (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 28 collections including 41 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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