Clypeidae

Short description: Family of sea urchins

Clypeidae

Temporal range: Jurassic – Cretaceous

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Fossil of Pygurus tenuis on display at Senckenberg Museum
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Echinodermata

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Echinoidea

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Clypeasteroida

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Clypeidae †

Lambert, 1898

Clypeidae is a family of sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida.

## Contents

* 1 Fossil record
* 2 Genera
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Fossil record

This family is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic (Bajocian age) to Cretaceous (Santonian age) (age range: from about 164.7 to 94.3 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Egypt, France , Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland , Ukraine , the United Arab Emirates, Chile , Ethiopia, Germany , India , Kenya, Madagascar , Poland , Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tunisia, United Kingdom and United States .[1]

## Genera

Genera within this family include:[1]

* Astrolampas Pomel 1883
* Clypeus Leske 1778
* Colliclypeus Smith 1991
* Pseudopygurus
* Pygurus Agassiz 1839

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Paleobiology Database

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q18920885 entry

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