Family Hemieuryalidae Verrill 1899 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Hemieuryalidae

Full reference: A. E. Verrill. 1899. Report on the Ophiuroidea collected by the Bahamas Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bulletin of the University of Iowa 5:1-86

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

See also Matsumoto 1915, O'Hara et al. 2017, Smith et al. 1995 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxon: Ophiolepididae

Subtaxa: Hemieuryale Hemieuryalinae Ophiozonella Sigsbeia

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Type: Hemieuryale

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Denmark (1 collection), France (2), Germany (1)

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

Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences

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