Ophiocoma Agassiz 1836 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1836. Prodrome d'une monographie des radiaires ou échinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel 1:168-199

Parent taxon: Ophiocomidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018

See also Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Storc and Zitt 2008

Sister taxon: Ophiocominae

Subtaxa: Ophiocoma hessi Ophiocoma ishidai Ophiocoma nereida Ophiocoma rasmusseni Ophiocoma senonensis

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Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1 collection), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (3), Czechia (4), Denmark (1), France (9), Germany (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 27 collections including 35 occurrences

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