Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1852. Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques [Elementary Course in Paleontology and Stratigraphic Geology] 2(2):383-848
Parent taxon: Ophiolepididae according to B. Thuy et al. 2012
See also Hess 1965, Hess 1970, Hess 1985, Hess 1991, Hess and Meyer 2008, Pohlig 1878, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Archaeophiomusium, Enakomusium, Eozonella, Mesophiomusium, Ophiolepis, Ophiomastinae
Subtaxa: Aplocoma aalensis Aplocoma agassizi Aplocoma brevispina Aplocoma buehleri Aplocoma granulata Aplocoma lariensis Aplocoma mutata Aplocoma torrii
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Switzerland (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), Portugal (1), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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