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Acrocidaris ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4875048	https://www.gbif.org/species/4875048
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	32908	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=32908

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Pseudodiadematidae : Acrocidaris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Pseudodiadematidae : Acrocidaris

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Echinozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Echinoidea
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea
-	Carinacea	Kroh and Smith 2010
family	Pseudodiadematidae	Pomel 1883
genus	Acrocidaris	L.Agassiz 1840

Scientific Name

Acrocidaris L.Agassiz, 1840

Name Published In

Agassiz, L. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. Oliv. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel, 20 pp.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acrocidaris	genus	belongs to Pseudodiadematidae	stated without evidence	Fell and Pawson, 1966
Acrocidaris	genus	belongs to Hemicidaroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

164 - 157 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

133 - 129 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Echinoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

grazer, deposit feeder (based on Echinoidea)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Echinoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Acrocidaris arginensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris borissiaki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris cazioti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris crenulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris marocense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris minor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris nicolleaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris striata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrocidaris tuberosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Acrotiaris Quenstedt, 1872	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Pseudodiadematidae : *Acrotiaris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Acrocidaris Fell and Pawson p. U386
2002	Acrocidaris Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Fell H. B., Pawson D. L. (1966) Echinacea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,Part U Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U367-U440

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mon. Ech., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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