Glyphocyphidae
Extinct family of sea urchins
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Glyphocyphidae is an extinct family of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea.
| Glyphocyphidae Temporal range: [1] | |
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| Echinopsis from Sudan, perforated specimen to be threaded. On display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Camarodonta |
| Infraorder: | Temnopleuridea |
| Family: | †Glyphocyphidae P. M. Duncan 1889 |
These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazers lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene periods (136.4 to 48.6 Ma).[1]
Genera
- Ambipleurus Lambert, 1932
- Arachniopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882
- Dictyopleurus Duncan & Sladen, 1882
- Echinopsis
- Glyphocyphus
- Hemidiadema
- Rachiosoma
- Rhabdopleurus Cotteau, 1893
