Ophioderma Müller and Troschel 1840 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae

Full reference: J. Müller and F.H. Troschel. 1840. Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 6:327-330

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

See also Clark 1904, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Hess 1975, Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Storc and Zitt 2008

Sister taxa: Ophiodermatinae, Ophiopsammus, Palaeocoma

Subtaxa: Ophioderma dentata Ophioderma hauchecorni Ophioderma qingchangensis Ophioderma radiatum Ophioderma rugensis Ophioderma spectabilis Ophioderma squamosum Ophioderma substriatum Ophioderma tenuibrachiata Ophioderma waliabadensis

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (3 collections), the Czech Republic (7), Denmark (1), France (5), Germany (3), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Germany (1), Iran (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Permian of China (1)

Total: 33 collections including 36 occurrences

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