Echinoida
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent
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Echinus melo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Echinodermata
Class:
Echinoidea
Subclass:
Euechinoidea
Superorder:
Echinacea
Order:
Echinoida

Troschal, 1872
Families

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Echinoida is an order of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. They are distinguished from other sea urchins by simultaneously possessing both an un-sculpted test and a feeding lantern with large plates fused across the top of each pyramid.

Taxonomy

Order Echinoida


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