Glyphocyphidae is an extinct family of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea.

Glyphocyphidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Paleogene [1]
Echinopsis from Sudan, perforated specimen to be threaded. On display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Camarodonta
Infraorder: Temnopleuridea
Family: Glyphocyphidae
P. M. Duncan 1889

These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazers lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene periods (136.4 to 48.6 Ma).[1]

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