Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Parent taxon: Cidaroida according to A. B. Smith 2015
See also Donovan et al. 2005, Grawe-Baumeister et al. 2000, Kroh and Smith 2010 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Cidaridea, Delocidaris, Diplocidaridae, Fellius, Heterocidaridae, Hirudocidaris, Histocidaridea, Leurocidaris, Menocidaris, Mesodiadema, Mikrocidari, Minicidaris, Miocidaridae, Oedematocidaris, Palmerius, Paracidaridae, Polycidaridae, Prophyllacanthus, Serpianotiaridae, Triadotiaridae
Subtaxa: Histocidaris Laurenticidaris Rhabdocidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (1 collection), Cuba (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Cuba (2), France (2), Germany (1), India (1), Qatar (3)
• Cretaceous of China (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Portugal (14), Spain (1), Switzerland (2)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), France (14), Germany (5), India (1), Luxembourg (1), Peru (1), Poland (7), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (24), Switzerland (7), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (16)
• Triassic of Italy (8)
Total: 130 collections including 142 occurrences