Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Full reference: J. F. Geys. 1987. The genus Typocidaris (Cidaroida; Echinoidea) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Maastricht area (Belgium and the Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 57:201-215
Belongs to Typocidaris according to J. F. Geys 1987
Sister taxa: Stereocidaris grandis, Stereocidaris hudspethensis, Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) malheiroi, Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) proxima, Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) sarracenarum, Typocidaris sceptrifera, Typocidaris pistillum, Typocidaris serrata
Type specimen: KBIN IST 10253. Its type locality is Heure-le-Romain, which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in the Gulpen Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Heure-le-Romain
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