Full reference: J. Müller and F.H. Troschel. 1840. Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 6:327-330
Parent taxon: Ophiurida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Donovan et al. 2005, Hess and Meyer 2008, Jagt 2000, Martin-Medrano et al. 2009, O'Hara et al. 2017, Smith et al. 1995, Storc and Zitt 2008, Thuy 2011 and Thuy et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Acroura, Chilophiurina, Chilophiurina, Dolicharthra, Gnathophiurina, Laemophiurina, Ophioderma asteriformis, Ophioderma bonnardi, Ophiolepidina, Ophiolepis damesi, Ophiolepis estarensis, Ophiomusina, Ophiomyxina, Ophiuricoma, Ophiurites rhaeticus, Plathyarthra
Subtaxa: Astrophiuridae Hemieuryalina Ophiopyrgidae Ophiuridae
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), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (6), Canada (1: Yukon), Czechia (9), Denmark (1), France (16), Germany (4), the Netherlands (5), Portugal (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (8: Montana, New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (4), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (3), 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: 150 collections including 193 occurrences