Ophiocoma avatar

Ophiocoma avatar

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiocomoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Ophiuroidea Subclasse: Myophiuroidea Infraclasse: Metophiurida Superordo: Ophintegrida Ordo: Ophiacanthida Subordo: Ophiodermatina Superfamilia: Ophiocomoidea

Familia: Ophiocomidae
Genus: Ophiocoma
Species: †Ophiocoma avatar

Name

• 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 (56.139333°N 14.401611°E / 56.139333; 14.401611), southern Sweden, dated to the latest early Campanian Belemnellocamax mammilatus belemnite biozone, Late Cretaceous.
  • Holotype: MNHNL OPH191
  • Paratypes: MNHNL OPH192—MNHNL OPH197

References

• 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)]