Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Full reference: T. D. O'Hara, S. Stöhr, A. F. Hugall, B. Thuy, and A. Martynov. 2018. Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. European Journal of Taxonomy 416:1-35
Parent taxon: Ophiomusina according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also O'Hara et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Ophiomusaidae
Subtaxa: Ophiomusium
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Chile (1 collection), Jamaica (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (11), Czechia (3), Denmark (1), France (11), Germany (3), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (4), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of France (6), Germany (2), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (11), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Iran (1)
Total: 70 collections including 93 occurrences