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: Laurenticidaris Rhabdocidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Eocene of 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 (6), 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: 122 collections including 134 occurrences