Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Amphiuridae
Full reference: M. Kutscher and J.W.M. Jagt. 2000. Early Maastrichitian ophiuroids from Rügen (northeast Germany) and Mon (Denmark). In Jagt J.M.W., Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:45-107
Belongs to Amphiura according to R. Storc 2004
See also Jagt 2000, Kutscher and Jagt 2000 and Storc and Zitt 2008
Sister taxa: Amphiura cretacea, Amphiura lymani, Amphiura sanctaecrucis
Type specimen: Holotype FGWG 112/17, paratypes RGM 428 013, NHMM JJ 5395
Ecology: semi-infaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), Germany (2)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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