Glyphocyphidae Explained

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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Notes and References

1. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxontree/id295991/ Biolib