Family Ophiolepididae Matsumoto 1915 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae

Alternative spelling: Ophiolepidinae

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: Ophiolepidoidea according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018

See also Berry 1937, Berry 1941, Clark and Twitchell 1915, Donovan et al. 2005, Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915, O'Hara et al. 2017, Smith et al. 1995, Spencer and Wright 1966, Storc and Zitt 2008, Thuy et al. 2012, Thuy and Kroh 2011 and Wolburg 1939

Sister taxon: Hemieuryalidae

Subtaxa: Aplocoma Archaeophiomusium Enakomusium Eozonella Mesophiomusium Ophiolepis Ophiomastinae

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Type: Ophiolepis

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (5), Germany (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (7), Portugal (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (2)

• Triassic of China (2), France (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Permian of United States (6: Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma), Venezuela (1)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Kansas)

Total: 47 collections including 57 occurrences

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