Family Euryalidae Gray 1840 (basket star)
Ophiuroidea - Euryalida - Euryalidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma Asterias (Linn.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:275-290
Parent taxon: Euryalida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Jagt 2000, O'Hara et al. 2017, Smith et al. 1995 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Asteronychidae, Gorgonocephalidae
Subtaxa: Euryale Trichaster
Type: Euryale
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Malta (1 collection)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), Denmark (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (3)
Total: 14 collections including 18 occurrences