Ophiocoma avatar

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Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiocomoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
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°08′22″N 14°24′06″E / 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 Open access Reference page.  [as Ophiocoma avatar p. 349–351 (original description)]
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