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Plegiocidaris bradfordensis

Echinoidea - Cidaroida

Taxonomy
Cidaris bradfordensis was named by Wright (1857). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bradford-on-Avon (Discus zone), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Plegiocidaris bradfordensis by Smith (2015).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. friburgensis, P. jacobi, P. marginata, P. muricata, P. peroni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Cidaris bradfordensis Wright
2015Plegiocidaris bradfordensis Smith p. 33 figs. Pl 19; text-figs 3R, 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
—Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassCidaroidea(Claus 1880)
orderCidaroida()
superfamilyCidarideaGray 1825
genusPlegiocidarisPomel 1883
speciesbradfordensis(Wright 1857)

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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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: Late/Upper Bathonian or 168.20000 to 165.30000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (Wiltshire) Cidaris bradfordensis (196209)
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom Plegiocidaris bradfordensis (196211)
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) Plegiocidaris bradfordensis (196210 196212 196213)
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3United Kingdom (Oxfordshire) Plegiocidaris bradfordensis (196208)