现生海胆纲跨越浅水与深水、表栖与内栖、杂食与食碎屑等模式；无论全球出现记录研究还是离散的干群骨板，都不能确定唯一的祖先生态或体型范围。
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参考文献 / paperGlobal sea urchin diversity patterns reveal shifts between shallow-water and deep-water benthic assemblages
He, L.; Cheng, J.; Xiao, N.; Hui, M.; Sha, Z.
年份2026
来源角色primary-study
DOI / ID10.1038/s43247-026-03579-9
适用范围
生态 · 生物地理 · occurrence · methods
Primary global occurrence and modelling study of living Echinoidea. It documents bathymetric, feeding and life-mode breadth but does not infer one ancestral echinoid ecology or body-size envelope.