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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