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Caenocidaris

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Paracidaridae

Taxonomy
Caenocidaris is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Psychocidaridae by Fell (1966); to Cidaroida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Paracidaridae by Smith (2015).

Species
Cidaris yeovilensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
C. cucumifera

Synonyms
  • Cidaris yeovilensis was named by Wright (1858). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Yeovil (Yeovil Sands), which is in a Toarcian marine sandstone in the Bridport Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.

    It was considered a nomen dubium by Smith (2015).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Cidaris yeovilensis Wright
1966Caenocidaris Fell p. U339
2002Caenocidaris Sepkoski
2015Caenocidaris Smith p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassCidaroidea(Claus 1880)
orderCidaroida()
familyParacidaridae
genusCaenocidaris

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Invalid names: Cidaris yeovilensis Wright 1858 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calciteo
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: grazero
Diet 2: omnivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-28 12:08:25
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:42:21
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Toarcian to the top of the Kimmeridgian or 180.10000 to 152.10000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Toarcian180.1 - 175.6United Kingdom (Somerset) Cidaris yeovilensis (196148)
Early/Lower Bajocian171.6 - 168.4Luxembourg C. cucumifera (38549)
Discites171.6 - 167.7Luxembourg C. sp. (141491)
Parkinsoni171.6 - 167.7United Kingdom C. sp. (196147 196150)
Middle Bathonian167.7 - 164.7United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) C. sp. (196149)
Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian163.5 - 152.1Mexico (Chihuahua) C. cucumifera (11287)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany C. sp. (211294)