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
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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