Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Full reference: T. Lyman. 1869. Preliminary report on the Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida reef, by L.F. de Pourtales, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University 1(10):309-354
Parent taxon: Ophiosphalmidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Donovan et al. 2005, Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966, Storc and Zitt 2008 and Thuy and Kroh 2011
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ophiomusium biconcavum Ophiomusium calloviense Ophiomusium dizluense Ophiomusium eburneum Ophiomusium ferrugineum Ophiomusium fitchii Ophiomusium gagnebini Ophiomusium granulosum Ophiomusium leckenbyi Ophiomusium longecombense Ophiomusium lux Ophiomusium mammillatum Ophiomusium murravii Ophiomusium praecisum Ophiomusium ramsayi Ophiomusium rugosum Ophiomusium sentum Ophiomusium sinemurensis Ophiomusium sinuatum Ophiomusium solodurense Ophiomusium vermiculatum Ophiomusium weymouthiense
Type: Ophiomusium eburneum
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), the Czech Republic (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
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