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Archaeocidaris
Taxonomy
Archaeocidaris was named by M'Coy (1844) [Sepkoski's age data: D Fras C Mosc-u Sepkoski's reference number: 956,1066]. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Archaeocidaridae.
It was assigned to Echinocystitoida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Archaeocidaridae by M'Coy (1844), Fell (1966), Boczarowski (2001), Schneider et al. (2005) and Webster et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Echinocystitoida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Archaeocidaridae by M'Coy (1844), Fell (1966), Boczarowski (2001), Schneider et al. (2005) and Webster et al. (2009).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Sister genera
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1844 | Archaeocidaris M'Coy p. 173 |
| 1966 | Archaeocidaris Fell p. U317 |
| 2001 | Archaeocidaris Boczarowski p. 94 |
| 2002 | Archaeocidaris Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2005 | Archaeocidaris Schneider et al. |
| 2009 | Archaeocidaris Webster et al. p. 248 |
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