Biology:Cidaris elegans

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Short description: Extinct species of sea urchin

Cidaris elegans
Temporal range: Oxfordian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Echinoidea
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cidaris elegans
Münster, 1826
Synonyms
  • Cidarites elegans Münster in Goldfuss, 1826
  • 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
  • Cotteau. Paléontologie française, terrains jurassiques, tome X, 1ère partie, p. 120

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q28404549 entry