Cidaris elegans

Cidaris elegans
Temporal range: Oxfordian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Cidaroida
Family: Cidaridae
Genus: Cidaris
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Cidaris elegans
Münster, 1826
Synonyms

Nudicidaris elegans (Münster in Goldfuss, 1826)[1]

Cidaris elegans is a fossil species of pencil sea urchins in the family Cidaridae. It is known from the Oxfordian stage (Jurassic) of France.[2]

Note that Cidaris elegans (A. Agassiz, 1879) is a synonym for Histocidaris elegans.

References

  1. Petrefacta Germaniae. Georg August Goldfuss (1826–44);
  2. echinologia.com

External links

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