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Diadema

Echinoidea - Diadematoida - Diadematidae

Taxonomy
Diadema was named as a genus. It is extant.

It was reranked as Cidarites (Diadema) by von Hagenow (1840).

It was assigned to Cidarites by von Hagenow (1840); to Diadematoida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Diadematidae by Fell (1966) and Smith (2009).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Cidarites (Diadema) von Hagenow
1966Diadema Fell p. U350
2002Diadema Sepkoski
2009Diadema Smith pp. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/ec

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
superorderAcroechinoidea()
orderDiadematoida
familyDiadematidae
genusDiadema

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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Diadema depressum Agassiz 1846
Diadema pseudodiadema Lamarck 1816
Diadema subangulare Goldfuss 1826
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. B. Smith 2009Test plating rather fragile, although plating effectively sutured throughout; Apical disc hemicyclic with ocular plates II and III exsert in the type species; Large circular periproct without enlarged periproctal plates; genital plates projecting strongly interradially; Ambulacra narrow and straight; pore-pairs non-conjugate, uniserial; phyllodes developed adorally; Ambulacral plating trigeminate with single large primary tubercle per plate except adorally where there may be fewer; Interambulacral zone wide, with ambital plates distinctly wider than tall; Two subequal primary tubercles on ambital plates, sometimes more in larger species; all tubercles perforate and crenulate; Peristome much larger than apical disc, with deep, rounded buccal notches associated with adradial tags; Spines very long and slender; hollow and with verticillate ornament.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinep
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: grazero
Vision: limitedc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-28 18:22:04
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:42:51
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Angulata to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 201.30000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Angulata201.3 - 196.5France (Lorraine) D. seriale (53947)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland (Jura) Pseudodiadema pseudodiadema (196467)
Early/Lower Aptian121.4 - 122.46United Kingdom (England) D. autissiodorense (32371)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Germany D. sp. (95898)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia D. sp. (80954)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Eritrea D. setosum (80719)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Jamaica D. antillarum (90592)