Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Paracidaridae
Full reference: A. B. Smith. 2015. British Jurassic regular echinoids. Part 1, Introduction, Cidaroida, Echinothurioida, Aspidodiadematoida and Pedinoida. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 169(644):1-67
Parent taxon: Cidaroida according to A. B. Smith 2015
Sister taxa: Cidaridea, Delocidaris, Diplocidaridae, Fellius, Heterocidaridae, Hirudocidaris, Histocidaridea, Leurocidaris, Menocidaris, Mesodiadema, Mikrocidari, Minicidaris, Miocidaridae, Oedematocidaris, Palmerius, Polycidaridae, Prophyllacanthus, Rhabdocidaridae, Serpianotiaridae, Triadotiaridae
Subtaxa: Caenocidaris
Type: Paracidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (1 collection), Luxembourg (2), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence