Osteichthyes - Halecomorphi - Ophiopsiidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1834:379-390
Parent taxon: Ophiopsiidae according to J. Cartanyà 1999
See also Bartram 1975, Bürgin 1995, Gardiner 1967, Sepkoski 2002, Wagner 1863, Wenz 1968, Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1918
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ophiopsis aequalis Ophiopsis altivelis Ophiopsis attenuata Ophiopsis bellottii Ophiopsis breviceps Ophiopsis dorsalis Ophiopsis intermedia Ophiopsis lepersonni Ophiopsis montsechensis Ophiopsis muensteri Ophiopsis penicillata Ophiopsis procera Ophiopsis serrata
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Germany (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (2), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Wyoming)
• Triassic of Italy (2)
Total: 22 collections including 28 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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