Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiomyxidae
Synonym: Schizospondylus jasmundiana 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 Ophiomyxa according to R. Storc and J. Zitt 2008
See also Kutscher and Jagt 2000, Müller 1950 and Rasmussen 1951
Sister taxa: Ophiomyxa jekerica, Ophiomyxa rhipidata
Type specimens:
- Ophiomyxa curvata: Holotype FGWG 112/1, paratypes RGM 428016 and NHMM JJ 5398
- Schizospondylus jasmundiana: SGWG 103/4.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (1 collection), Denmark (1), Germany (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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