Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae
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 Ophiocoma according to M. Kutscher and J.W.M. Jagt 2000
Sister taxa: Ophiocoma hessi, Ophiocoma nereida, Ophiocoma rasmusseni, Ophiocoma senonensis
Type specimen: Holotype FGWG 112/16, paratype RGM 428 035. Its type locality is Rügen Island, White Chalk, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shelf chalk in the White Chalk Formation of Germany.
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution: found only at Rügen Island, White Chalk
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