Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Full reference: T. Lyman. 1865. Ophiuroidae and Astrophytidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1:1-200
Parent taxon: Ophiurina according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Blake 1975, Calzada and Gutiérrez 1988, Chen et al. 2004, Jagt 2000, O'Hara et al. 2017, Radwanski 2002, Smith et al. 1995, Spencer and Wright 1966, Storc and Zitt 2008 and Thuy and Kroh 2011
Sister taxa: Astrophiuridae, Hemieuryalina, Ophiopyrgidae
Subtaxa: Felderophiura Huangzhishania Ophiocrossota Ophiocten Ophioleucinae Ophiura Ophiurinae Ophiurites
Type: Ophiura
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: New Brunswick collection), Greenland (2), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Chile (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (11), France (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Oregon), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Paleogene of United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (3)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (3), Canada (1: Yukon), the Czech Republic (9), Denmark (1), France (13), Germany (4), the Netherlands (5), Portugal (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (8: Montana, New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (4), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Utah)
• Triassic of Bulgaria (1), China (4), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (12), Poland (7), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Idaho), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of China (1)
Total: 140 collections including 165 occurrences