Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Full reference: R. Enay and H. Hess. 1962. Sur la découvertes d'Ophiures (Ophiopetra lithographica n.g.n.sp.) dans le Jurassique supérieur du Haut-Valromey (Jura méridional). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 55(2):657-678
Parent taxon: Ophiopetrinae according to H. Hess and C. A. Meyer 2008
See also Enay and Hess 1962, Hess 1965, Hess 1972, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxon: Ophiohybris
Subtaxa: Ophiopetra bathonica Ophiopetra lithographica Ophiopetra oertlii
Type: Ophiopetra lithographica
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (4 collections), France (8), Germany (6), Switzerland (6), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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