Glyphocyphidae

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Echinoidea Order Camarodonta		Phylum Echinodermata Superorder Echinacea Rank Family

Similar Temnopleuridea, Echinacea, Toxopneustidae, Phymosomatidae, Saleniidae

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).

Genera

Ambipleurus Lambert, 1932

Arachniopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882

Dictyopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882

Echinopsis

Glyphocyphus

Hemidiadema

Rachiosoma

Rhabdopleurus Cotteau, 1893

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