Discoidiidae

Discoidiidae

[dis‚kȯi′dī·ə‚dē]

(paleontology)

A family of extinct conical or globular, exocyclic Euechinoidea in the order Holectypoida distinguished by the rudiments of internal skeletal partitions.

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