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Archaeocidaridae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4876767	https://www.gbif.org/species/4876767
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	82424	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=82424

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae

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
family	Archaeocidaridae	M'Coy 1844

Scientific Name

Archaeocidaridae

Name Published In

Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (2)3: 253

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archaeocidaridae	family	belongs to Cidaroida	stated with evidence	Fell, 1966
Archaeocidaridae	family	belongs to Cidaroida	stated without evidence	Boczarowski, 2001
Archaeocidaridae	family	belongs to Echinoidea	stated with evidence	Kroh and Smith, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

427 - 423 Ma
Silurian

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)

F. M'Coy. 1844. A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albertechinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	38	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Archaeocidaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	61	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	260 Ma Permian
Deneechinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Devonocidaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Echinocrinus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	38	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	279 Ma Permian
Eocidaris ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Lepidocidaris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Nortonechinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Polytaxicidaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	365 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Silurocidaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	427 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Xenocidaris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1844	Archaeocidaridae M'Coy p. 173
1966	Archaeocidaridae Fell p. U317
1991	Archaeocidaridae Begg and Ballard p. 152
2001	Archaeocidaridae Boczarowski p. 94
2009	Archaeocidaridae Webster et al. p. 248
2010	Archaeocidaridae Kroh and Smith p. 169

References

M'Coy F. , A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland, 1-274

Fell H. B. (1966) Cidaroids, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,Part U Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 1, U312-U339

Begg J. G., Ballard H.R. (1991) An Early Permian fauna from the Mantle Volcanics Formation, Skippers Range, northwest Otago, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 34, 145-155

Boczarowski A. (2001) Isolated sclerites of Devonian nonpelmatozoan echinoderms, Palaeontologia Polonica 59, 3-220

Webster G. D., Waters J. A., et al (2009) New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) echinoderms from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, western China, Palaeoworld 18, 241-250

Kroh A., Smith A. B. (2010) The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 2, 147-212 doi:10.1080/14772011003603556

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2010): The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8/2: 147-212. - via World Register of Marine Species

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 41 Addition to the Official List of family- group names in Zoology or, as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and invalid family-group names in Zoology of the family-group names Involved in volume 11 of the Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological nomenclature, other than family-group names already dealt with in those Opinions.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 11(30), 431-452 (1956) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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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