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Echinidea
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Echinidea

The Camarodonta are an order of globular sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. The fossil record shows that camarodonts have been in existence since the Lower Cretaceous.

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3 branches of this group, most-observed first

Odontophora

superfamilyOdontophora

Parechinidae

familyParechinidae

Echinidae

familyEchinidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 814155.