Ophiolepis granulata Kutscher and Jagt 2000 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae

Full reference: M. Kutscher and J.W.M. Jagt. 2000. Early Maastrichitian ophiuroids from RĂ¼gen (northeast Germany) and Mon (Denmark). In Jagt J.M.W., Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:45-107

Belongs to Ophiolepis according to J. W. M. Jagt 2000

See also Kutscher and Jagt 2000

Sister taxa: Ophiolepis bertrandi, Ophiolepis falsa, Ophiolepis gracilis, Ophiolepis linea, Ophiolepis shaanxiensis, Ophiolepis ulmensis

Type specimen: Holotype FGWG 112/6, paratypes RGM 428 004

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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