Histocidaris Mortensen 1903 (pencil urchin)
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Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Histocidaridae
Parent taxon: Histocidarinae according to H. B. Fell 1966
See also Donovan et al. 2005, Grant and Hertlein 1938 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Poriocidaris
Subtaxa: Histocidaris cobosi Histocidaris elegans Histocidaris rosaria
Type: Porocidaris elegans
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (1 collection), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Cuba (2)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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