Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 32817

Synonym: Chesniericidaris Vadet 2004 (taxon 375729)

Parent taxon: Polycidaridae according to E. A. Bischof et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Nudicidaris, Polycidaris, Romanocidaris

Subtaxa: Paracidaris (Anisocidaris), Paracidaris blumenbachi, Paracidaris florigemma, Paracidaris jeanneti, Paracidaris laeviuscula, Paracidaris toucasi, Paracidaris wrightii

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Type: Cidaris florigemma

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