Cidaris elegans

Cidaris elegans; Temporal range: Oxfordian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Cidaroida
Family:	Cidaridae
Genus:	Cidaris
Species:	C. elegans
Binomial name
	Cidaris elegans; Münster, 1826
Synonyms
	†Cidarites elegans Münster in Goldfuss, 1826; †Nudicidaris elegans (Münster in Goldfuss, 1826);

Cidaris elegans is a fossil species of pencil sea urchins in the family Cidaridae. It is known from the Oxfordian stage (Jurassic) of France.^[2]

Note that Cidaris elegans (A. Agassiz, 1879) is a synonym for Histocidaris elegans.

References[]

Cotteau. Paléontologie française, terrains jurassiques, tome X, 1ère partie, p. 120

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