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Ophiolancea swartkopensis
Taxonomy
Ophiolancea swartkopensis was named by Shone (1986). Its type specimen is University of Port Elizabeth No. A 8773, a skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Swartkops Brickfield Ophiuroid, which is in a Valanginian foreshore mudstone in the Sundays River Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Ophiolancea.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1986 | Ophiolancea swartkopensis Shone p. 906 figs. figs. 3-7 |
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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.
†Ophiolancea swartkopensis Shone 1986
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. W. Shone 1986 | Small ophiuroid with long slender arms inserted ventrally; vertebrae subcylyndrical, arm rounded-trigonal to circular in cross-section; lateral arm plates wrapped around arm and joining at midline of ventral surface on distal portion of arm; most distal part of arm with lanceolate lateral arm plates; arm spines apparently arranged in pairs at an angle to arm on medial portion; rounded-triangular ventral arm plates occur on proximal part of each arm, but reduced or underdeveloped in more distal portions; central disc with thin flat platelets and granules on oral surface; elongate bursal spines and what appear to be combs of short curved spines on oral surface; mouth-angle-plate elongate and triangular, but not clearly divided. |