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Polycidaris

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Polycidaris Fell p. U323
2002Polycidaris Sepkoski
2015Polycidaris Hostettler and Menkveld-Gfeller p. 202
2015Polycidaris Smith p. 20

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

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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†Polycidaris escheri de Loriol 1868
†Polycidaris gygii Hostettler and Menkveld-Gfeller 2015
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Invalid names: Cidaris moorei Wright 1858 [synonym]
†Polycidaris legayi Sauvage and Rigaux 1873
†Polycidaris nusplingensis Grawe-Baumeister et al. 2000
†Polycidaris regularis Münster 1841
†Polycidaris spinosa Agassiz 1840
†Polycidaris spinulosa Roemer 1836
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Invalid names: Cidaris confluens Forbes 1856 [synonym]
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: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Julian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 237.00000 to 145.06000 Ma

Collections (22 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Julian237.0 - 233.6Italy Cidaris regularis (137429)
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9United Kingdom (Somerset) Cidaris ilminsterensis, Cidaris moorei (159505)
Early/Lower Bajocian170.9 - 168.6Luxembourg P. horrida (38549)
Parkinsoni170.9 - 168.2United Kingdom (Somerset) Cidaris confluens (195995)
Bajocian - Bathonian170.9 - 165.3Poland P. sp. (158205)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Poland P. sp. (158199)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Germany (Brandenburg) P. sp. (32016)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8United Kingdom (Scotland) P. sp. (196001)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France P. spinosa (163585)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Switzerland P. escheri (196410) P. gygii (196412 196413) P. spinosa, P. escheri (196408)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Germany P. gygii (196411)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Switzerland P. spinosa, P. escheri (196409)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian152.21 - 149.2Germany (Baden-Württemberg) P. nusplingensis (154138 241573)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06United Kingdom (Buckinghamshire) P. legayi (195997)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06United Kingdom (Oxfordshire) P. legayi (196000)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06United Kingdom (Dorset) P. legayi (195996)
Tithonian149.2 - 143.1United Kingdom (Cambridgeshire) P. legayi (195998 195999)