Suborder Zeugophiurina Matsumoto 1929 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida

Alternative spellings: Zeugophiuricae, Zeugophiuroidea

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1929. Outline of a classification of Echinodermata. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, ser. 2, Geology 13(2):27-33

Parent taxon: Oegophiurida according to N. S. Smith et al. 2025

See also Boczarowski 2001, Glass and Poschmann 2006, Haude and Thomas 1983, Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Webster et al. 1999

Sister taxon: Lysophiurina

Subtaxa: Furcasteridae Lapworthuridae

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

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Indiana collection)

• Givetian of Poland (1)

• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Germany (5), Poland (24), United States (2: Colorado, Montana)

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (4)

• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario)

Total: 40 collections including 49 occurrences

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