Clypeidae
Family of sea urchins
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Clypeidae is a family of sea urchins belonging to the superorder Neognathostomata.[2]
| Clypeidae Temporal range: [1] | |
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| Fossil of Pygurus tenuis on display at Senckenberg Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Superorder: | Neognathostomata |
| Family: | †Clypeidae Lambert, 1898 |
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]
