Amphiophiura Matsumoto 1915 (brittle star)
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Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1915. A new classification of Ophiuroidea: with description of genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67:43-92
Parent taxon: Ophiopyrgidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Berry 1937, Matsumoto 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Thuy and Kroh 2011
Sister taxa: Aspidophiura, Stegophiura
Subtaxa: Amphiophiura oligocenica
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Locality 1, Serre de Bleyton (Cretaceous of France)
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