Malacostraca - Decapoda - Oplophoridae

Synonym: Hoplophorus Agassiz 1846

Parent taxon: Oplophoridae according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Hymenodora, Meningodora, Notostomus, Stystellaspis, Systellapsis, Tonellocaris

Subtaxa: Oplophorus marcki Oplophorus novaezeelandiae Oplophorus rosselli Oplophorus spinosus Oplophorus syriacus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Arenfelde quarry, near Sendenhorst (Cretaceous of Germany)

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