Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Synonyms: Ophioglypha Lyman 1860, Ophiura (Ophioglypha) Lyman 1860
Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1801. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 8:1-432
Parent taxon: Ophiuridae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Barbier et al. 1957, Berry 1941, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Lyman 1860, Matsumoto 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966, Stöhr et al. 2011 and Wolburg 1939
Sister taxa: Felderophiura, Huangzhishania, Ophiocrossota, Ophiocten, Ophioleucinae, Ophiurinae, Ophiurites
Subtaxa: Ophioglypha bridgerensis Ophioglypha paronai Ophioglypha pulchra Ophioglypha utahensis Ophiura (Aspidura) Ophiura (Ophioglypha) estarensis Ophiura achatae Ophiura astonensis Ophiura bartonensis Ophiura bognoriensis Ophiura carpelloides Ophiura costata Ophiura cretacea Ophiura cunliffei Ophiura davisi Ophiura furiae Ophiura graysonensis Ophiura hendleri Ophiura kunradeca Ophiura marylandica Ophiura olifex Ophiura ophiura Ophiura paucilepis Ophiura sarsii Ophiura serrata Ophiura sternbergica Ophiura straini Ophiura texana Ophiura tinurtiensis Ophiura travisana Ophiura wetherelli
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: New Brunswick collection), Greenland (2), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (11), the United Kingdom (1), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Canada (1: Yukon), the Czech Republic (9), Denmark (1), France (11), Germany (3), the Netherlands (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Montana, New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (4), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Utah)
• Triassic of France (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 80 collections including 84 occurrences
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