Glyphocyphidae

Glyphocyphidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Paleogene
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Echinopsis from Sudan, perforated specimen to be threaded. On display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Superorder: Echinacea
Order: Camarodonta
Family: Glyphocyphidae
P. M. Duncan 1889

Glyphocyphidae is an extinct family of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea.

These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazers lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene periods (136.4 to 48.6 Ma).[1]

Genera

  • Ambipleurus Lambert, 1932
  • Arachniopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882
  • Dictyopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882
  • Echinopsis
  • Glyphocyphus
  • Hemidiadema
  • Rachiosoma
  • Rhabdopleurus Cotteau, 1893

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References

  1. 1 2 The Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ Biolib


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