A taxonomic superfamily of extinct and living sea urchins with helmet-shaped shells, including cassidulina-like forms.
Scientific Latin from cassidula (related to cassida) plus -oidea, the suffix for superfamilies in taxonomic classification.
Sea urchins have been around for 450 million years and their skeleton design is so efficient that NASA engineers study them to design better spacecraft structures!
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