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Ophiotitanos ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31577	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31577

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Ophiurida : Ophiuridae : Ophiotitanos

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Asterozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Ophiuroidea	Gray 1840
order	Ophiurida
family	Ophiuridae	Lyman 1865
subfamily	Ophiurinae	Lyman 1865
genus	Ophiotitanos	Spencer 1907

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ophiotitanos	genus	belongs to Ophiolepidinae	stated without evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966
Ophiotitanos	genus	belongs to Ophiodermatidae	stated without evidence	Jagt, 2000
Ophiotitanos	genus	belongs to Ophiurida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ophiotitanos	genus	belongs to Ophiodermatidae	stated without evidence	Storc and Zitt, 2008
Ophiotitanos	genus	belongs to Ophiurinae	stated without evidence	Thuy and Kroh, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Ophiuroidea)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Ophiuroidea)

Vision

blind (based on Ophiuroidea)

Diet

detritivore, suspension feeder (based on Ophiuroidea)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Ophiuroidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. K. Spencer. 1907. A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Paleontographical Society Monographs 2(4):91-132

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ophiotitanos laevis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophiotitanos magnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophiotitanos pilleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Ophiotitanos smithi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiotitanos tenuis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1907	Ophiotitanos Spencer
1966	Ophiotitanos Spencer and Wright p. U96
2000	Ophiotitanos Jagt p. 28
2002	Ophiotitanos Sepkoski, Jr.
2008	Ophiotitanos Storc and Zitt p. 132
2011	Ophiotitanos Thuy and Kroh p. 787

References

Spencer W. K. (1907) A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, Paleontographical Society Monographs 2 4, 91-132

Spencer W. K., Wright C.W. (1966) Asterozoans, Moore R.C. ed, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Echinodermata, University of Kansas Press and the Geological Society of America 3 1, U4-U107

Jagt J. W. M. (2000) Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids, Scripta Geologica 21, 1-179

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Storc R., Zitt J. (2008) Late Turonian ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic, Bulletin of Geosciences 83 2, 123-140

Thuy B., Kroh A. (2011) Barremian ophiuroids from the Serre de Bleyton (Drôme, SE France), Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museums in Wien, Serie A 113, 777-807

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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