subclass

Pencil Urchins

Cidaroidea

Field notes

Cidaroida, also known as pencil urchins, is an order of primitive sea urchins, the only living order of the subclass Perischoechinoidea. All other orders of this subclass, which were even more primitive than the living forms, became extinct during the Mesozoic.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native pencil urchins All

Native to the US, by observations.