Ophiosmilax alternatus Kutscher and Jagt 2000 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiobyrsidae

Synonym: Transspondylus bubnoffi Müller 1950

Full reference: M. Kutscher and J.W.M. Jagt. 2000. Early Maastrichitian ophiuroids from Rügen (northeast Germany) and Mon (Denmark). In Jagt J.M.W., Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:45-107

Belongs to Ophiosmilax according to R. Storc 2004

See also Jagt 2000, Kutscher and Jagt 2000, Müller 1950, Rasmussen 1951, Storc 1997 and Storc and Zitt 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

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

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Belgium (3 collections), the Czech Republic (5), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Tunisia (1)

Total: 12 collections including 15 occurrences

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