Echinarachniidae
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Echinarachniidae is a family of echinoderms belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. This clade appeared in the Middle Miocene epoch and is still living today in the North Pacific Ocean (California and Japan) ocean to Northeast Canada and Southern United States.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassEchinoidea
- OrderEchinolampadacea
- FamilyEchinarachniidae
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- UCMP, NHMUK
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- United States, Japan
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Echinarachniidae is a family of echinoderms belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. This clade appeared in the Middle Miocene epoch and is still living today in the North Pacific Ocean (California and Japan) ocean to Northeast Canada and Southern United States.
==Genera== Genera: Astrodapsis Conrad, 1856 Echinarachnius Gray, 1825 Faassia Shmidt, 1971 Kewia Nisiyama, 1935 Proescutella Pomel, 1883 Pseudastrodapsis Durham, 1953 Scutellaster Cragin, 1895 Tenuirachnius Durham, 1955 Vaquerosella Durham, 1955
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