[= Histocidarina Mortensen, 1928, p. 69]
Diagnosis | Cidarids with:
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Range | Upper Triassic (Rhaetic) to Recent; widespread. |
Species Included | Only the genus Histocidaris is included. |
Classification and/or Status | Cidaroida, Histocidaridea |
Remarks | Distinguished from Rhabdocidaridae by its non-conjugate pore-pairs and from micodarids by its non-denticulate and more or less firmly tesselate ambulacral-interambulacral plate sutures. It differs from Cidaridae by its strongly crenulate tubercles and from Psychocidaridae by its small and clearly perforate mamelons and long cylindrical spines. |