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Archaeocidaris ✝

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Description

Archaeocidaris is an extinct genus of echinoid that lived from the Late Devonian to the Late Permian. Its remains have been found in Africa, Europe, and North America.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeocidaris, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4876768	https://www.gbif.org/species/4876768
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	32741	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=32741

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae : Archaeocidaris

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae : Archaeocidaris

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
genus	Archaeocidaris	M'Coy 1844

Scientific Name

Archaeocidaris M'Coy, 1844

Name Published In

Syn. Char. Carb. Limest. Foss. Ireland: 173 (conserved under the plenary power)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archaeocidaris	genus	belongs to Archaeocidaridae	stated without evidence	M'Coy, 1844
Archaeocidaris	genus	belongs to Echinocystitoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Archaeocidaris	genus	belongs to Archaeocidaridae	stated with evidence	Schneider et al., 2005
Archaeocidaris	genus	belongs to Archaeocidaridae	stated without evidence	Webster et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

393 - 388 Ma
Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

260 - 252 Ma
Permian

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeocidaris

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archaeocidaris aliquantula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris apheles species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris barroisi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris brownwoodensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris cacumenspineus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris cowleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris cratis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris diadematoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris diminnii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris faassi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris fraxinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris gracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris hamata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris hemispinifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris immanis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris ladina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Archaeocidaris longispinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris manhattanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris meurevillensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris mosquensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris newberryi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris ornatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris ourayensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris propinqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris schreteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris selwyni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Archaeocidaris setosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris strawberryensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris triplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris triserialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris triserrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archaeocidaris whatleyensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cidarotrophus Pomel, 1883	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae : *Cidarotrophus*
Archeocidaris Agassiz, 1872	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Archaeocidaridae : *Archeocidaris*

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

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

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

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

Schneider C. L., Sprinkle J., et al (2005) PENNSYLVANIAN (LATE CARBONIFEROUS) ECHINOIDS FROM THE WINCHELL FORMATION, NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS, USA, Journal of Paleontology 79 4, 745-762

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

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 370 Validation under the Plenary Powers of the generic name Archaeocidaris Mccoy, 1844 (class Echinoidea) by the suppression under the same Powers of the generic name Echinocrinus Agassiz (J. L. R.), 1841.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 11(20), 301-320 (1955) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - 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

Syn. Carb. Foss. Ireland - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - 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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