Hemipedina (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Pedinoida - Pedinidae

Parent taxon: Pedinidae according to A. B. Smith 2015

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Fell 1966, Kier 1977 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Caenopedina, Diademopsis, Dumblea, Echinopedina, Leiopedina, Loriolipedina, Palaeopedina, Pedina, Phalacropedina, Phymopedina, Pseudorthopsis, Stenechinus

Subtaxa: Hemipedina beaugrandi Hemipedina etheridgii Hemipedina ferryi Hemipedina hudsoni Hemipedina incipiens Hemipedina jardinii Hemipedina perforata Hemipedina taylori Hemipedina tuberculosa Hemipedina woodwardii

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Type: Pedina etheridgii

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3 collections)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (17)

• Triassic of Hungary (1), Oman (1)

Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences

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