Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1915. A new classification of Ophiuroidea: with description of genera and species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67:43-92
Parent taxon: Ophiopyrgidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Storc and Zitt 2008
Sister taxa: Amphiophiura, Aspidophiura
Subtaxa: Stegophiura eocaenus Stegophiura hagenowi Stegophiura nekvasilovae Stegophiura trispinosa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Poland (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (4), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), France (8), Germany (3), the Netherlands (1), Spain (1)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
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