Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 32841

Full reference: A. B. Smith. 1994. Triassic echinoids from Peru. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:177-202

Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to A. B. Smith 1994

Sister taxa: Centrocidaris, Cidarinae, Cidarini, Cidaris, Dorocidaris, Hesperocidaris, Prionocidaris, Rhabdocidarinae, Stereocidarinae, Stylocidarinae

Subtaxa: Triassicidaris ampezzana, Triassicidaris peruviensis

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Type: Triassicidaris peruviensis

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore