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Ophiomusium mammillatum

Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae

Taxonomy
Ophiomusium mammillatum was named by Hess (1966). It is not extant. Its type specimen is Museum of Basel, Hess collection, B87. Its type locality is Echinodermata, Argovian, Guldenthal, Kt. Solothurn, which is in an Oxfordian offshore claystone in Switzerland.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. stephensoni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1966Ophiomusium mammillatum Hess p. 1028 figs. 4-7
1975Ophiomusium mammillatum Hess p. 592 figs. 1-4; pl. 1, fig. 1, 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
—Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
—Asterozoa()
classOphiuroidea
RankNameAuthor
suborderMyophiurina()
infraclassMetophiuridaMatsumoto 1913
superorderEuryophiurida
orderOphiurida()
suborderOphiomusina
familyOphiosphalmidae
genusOphiomusium
speciesmammillatum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: high Mg calcitec
Ontogeny: accretion, addition of partsp
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: slow-movingc
Life habit: low-level epifaunalc
Diet: detritivorec
Diet 2: suspension feederc
Vision: blindc
Dispersal: waterp
Dispersal 2: planktonicp
Created: 2004-02-29 11:30:09
Modified: 2010-02-12 01:58:57
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Aberhan 1992, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Callovian to the top of the Late/Upper Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Germany (Brandenburg) Ophiomusium mammillatum (32016)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Switzerland Ophiomusium mammillatum (58317 type locality: 61723)