The Echinoid Directory

Paracidaris ( Paracidaris ) Pomel, 1883, p. 109

Diagnostic Features	A subgenus of Paracidaris with: spines short and relatively stout interradial zone not expansive mamelons on primary interambulacral plates enlarging adapically.
Distribution	Upper Jurassic, Europe.
Name gender	feminine
Type	Cidaris florigemma Phillips, 1829, p. 98, by subsequent designation of Savin, 1903, p. 164.
Species Included	P. florigemma (Phillips, 1829); Oxfordian, Europe. P. blumenbachi (Munster in Goldfuss, 1826); Oxfordian, Europe. P. laeviscula (Agassiz, 1840); Oxfordian, Europe. P. lamberti Savin, 1903; Kimmeridgian, France.
Classification and/or Status	Cidaroida, Polycidaridae. Presumed monophyletic.
Remarks	The type species has been described and illustrated in detail by Radwanska (2003). Pomel, A. 1883. Classification methodique et genera des echinides vivants et fossiles. Thesis presentees a la Faculte de Science, Paris. A. Jourdan, Alger. 131 pp. Radwanska, U. 2003. The Kimmeridgian echinoids of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 53, 143-165.