The study of echinoid evolution, diversity, and ecology has always
suffered from the fact that they are represented by taxa showing
widely differing architectural designs of their multi-plated
skeletons, inhabiting a large range of marine paleoenvironments,
which result in highly varying taphonomic biases dictating their
presence and recognition. This Element addresses the taphonomy of
echinoids and includes: a general introduction to the morphological
features of echinoids that play a role in their preservation; a
review of processes which play an important role in the
differential preservation of both regular and irregular echinoids
including predation and transport; a summary of taphonomic pathways
included in actualistic studies for recent sea urchins and then
reconstructed for fossil taxa; and finally, a case study of the
variation of echinoid taphonomy across a shelf gradient using the
rich Miocene echinoid fauna of Sardinia.
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