Order Euryalida Lamarck 1816 (basket star)

Ophiuroidea - Euryalida

Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1816. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rattachent. 1(2):522-568

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

See also Jagt 2000, O'Hara et al. 2017 and Smith et al. 1995

Sister taxon: Ophiurida

Subtaxa: Asteronychidae Euryalidae Gorgonocephalidae

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

Distribution:

• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Germany (1), Malta (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (3), Sweden (1)

Total: 20 collections including 28 occurrences

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