Full reference: T. D. O'Hara, A. F. Hugall, B. Thuy, S. Stöhr, and A. V. Martynov. 2017. Restructuring higher taxonomy using broad-scale phylogenomics: The living Ophiuroidea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107:415-430
Parent taxon: Ophiurida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also O'Hara et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Acroura, Chilophiurina, Chilophiurina, Dolicharthra, Gnathophiurina, Laemophiurina, Ophioderma asteriformis, Ophioderma bonnardi, Ophiolepidina, Ophiolepis damesi, Ophiolepis estarensis, Ophiomyxina, Ophiuricoma, Ophiurina, Ophiurites rhaeticus, Plathyarthra
Subtaxa: Ophiomusaidae Ophiosphalmidae
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Chile (1 collection), Jamaica (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (11), Czechia (3), Denmark (1), France (11), Germany (3), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (4), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of France (6), Germany (2), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (11), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Iran (1)
Total: 70 collections including 93 occurrences