Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
Full reference: M. Kutscher and J.W.M. Jagt. 2000. Early Maastrichitian ophiuroids from RĂ¼gen (northeast Germany) and Mon (Denmark). In Jagt J.M.W., Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:45-107
Parent taxon: Ophiolepididae according to A. B. Smith and J. A. Crame 2012
See also Jagt 2000 and Kutscher and Villier 2003
Sister taxa: Aplocoma, Archaeophiomusium, Enakomusium, Eozonella, Ophiolepis, Ophiomastinae
Subtaxa: Mesophiomusium decipiens Mesophiomusium geisingense Mesophiomusium moenense Mesophiomusium paragraysonensis Mesophiomusium scabrum
Type: Mesophiomusium moenense
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore-detritivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2 collections), Denmark (1), Germany (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (5), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 13 collections including 18 occurrences
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