{{Short description|Extinct genus of sea urchins}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Jurassic}}<ref name=fa>[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database]</ref> | image = Diplocidaridae - Diplocidaris gigantea.JPG | image_caption = Fossil inner cast of ''Diplocidaris gigantea'', on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | taxon = Diplocidaris | authority = Desor, 1855 }}
'''''Diplocidaris''''' is an extinct genus of sea urchins belonging to the family Diplocidaridae. The type species of this genus is ''Cidaris gigantea'' Agassiz, 1840.<ref name=fb>[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=1059 Natural History Museum]</ref>
These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivores <ref name=fa/> lived in the Jurassic period, from 161.2 to 150.8 Ma.<ref name=fa/> Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of Europe, North Africa, Madagascar.<ref name=fb/>
==Species== *''Diplocidaris gigantea'' <small>(Agassiz, 1840)</small> *''Diplocidaris besairiei'' <small>Lambert, 1936</small> *''Diplocidaris jacquemonti'' <small>Lambert, 1910</small> *''Diplocidaris desori'' <small>Wright, 1858</small> *''Diplocidaris dumortieri'' <small>Cotteau, 1863</small> *''Diplocidaris gevreyi'' <small>Lambert in Savin 1902</small> *''Diplocidaris bernasconii'' <small>Bischof, Hostettler & Menkveld-Gfeller, 2018</small><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Eva A. Bischof |author2=Bernhard Hostettler |author3=Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller |year=2018 |title=The cidaroids from the Middle Oxfordian St-Ursanne Formation of the Swiss Jura Mountains |journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=1–27 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326836514_The_cidaroids_from_the_Middle_Oxfordian_St-Ursanne_Formation_of_the_Swiss_Jura_Mountains }}</ref> <ref name=fb/>
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Category:Diplocidaridae Category:Prehistoric sea urchin genera Category:Cidaroida genera Category:Jurassic echinoderms Category:Extinct animals of Africa Category:Fossil taxa described in 1855
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