Histocidaris Mortensen 1903 (pencil urchin)

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

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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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