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Glyphocyphidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Echinoidea

Order
  
Camarodonta

Phylum
  
Echinodermata

Superorder
  
Echinacea

Rank
  
Family

Glyphocyphidae

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
  • References

    Glyphocyphidae Wikipedia