Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Lapworthuridae

Full reference: J. W. Gregory. 1897. On the classification of the Palaeozoic echinoderms of the group Ophiuroidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896:1028-1044

Parent taxon: Lapworthuridae according to W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966

See also Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer 1925

Sister taxa: Hallaster, Lapworthura, Ophiopolytretus

Subtaxa: Miospondylus rhenanus

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Type: Ophiura rhenana

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany (Devonian of Germany)

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