Rhabdocidaris fowleri Wright 1851 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae

Alternative combination: Cidaris fowleri

Full reference: T. Wright. 1851. On the Cidaridae of the Oolites, with a description of some new species of that family. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 8:241-280

Belongs to Rhabdocidaris according to A. B. Smith 2015

See also Wright 1851

Sister taxa: Rhabdocidaris boehmi, Rhabdocidaris copeoides, Rhabdocidaris deubelbeissi, Rhabdocidaris horrida, Rhabdocidaris orbignyana, Rhabdocidaris rauraca, Rhabdocidaris sanchezi, Rhabdocidaris subcoronata, Rhabdocidaris thurmanni, Rhabdocidaris zitteli

Type specimen: NHM E1682. Its type locality is Crickley Hill (Wright collection), which is in a Murchisonae reef, buildup or bioherm limestone/marl in the Birdlip Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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