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Taxonavigation: Ophiocomoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Ophiocomidae
Genus: Ophiocoma
Species: †Ophiocoma avatar
Name[edit]
- Ophiocoma avatar Thuy & Numberger-Thuy, 2023
- Type horizon and locality: Coarse-grained skeletal carbonates from between the hummocks and boulders of the rocky shore at Ivö Klack (56°08′22″N 14°24′06″E / 56.139333°N 14.401611°E), southern Sweden, dated to the latest early Campanian Belemnellocamax mammilatus belemnite biozone, Late Cretaceous.
- Holotype: MNHNL OPH191
- Paratypes: MNHNL OPH192—MNHNL OPH197
References[edit]
- Thuy, B., Numberger-Thuy, L.D. 2023. The Northernmost Occurrence of the Tropical-Subtropical Brittle Star Ophiocoma (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from a Late Cretaceous Rocky Shore in Southern Sweden †. Taxonomy. 3(3): 346–355. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3030020
Reference page. [as Ophiocoma avatar p. 349–351 (original description)]