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Ophiura

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Ophiura sp.

Arfoud, Arfoud Cercle, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

Ophiura sp.

Arfoud, Arfoud Cercle, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

Ophiura sp.

Arfoud, Arfoud Cercle, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	31579	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31579

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Ophiuroidea : Ophiurida : Ophiuridae : Ophiura

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
genus	Ophiura	Lamarck 1801

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiurinae	stated without evidence	Lyman, 1865
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiomastinae	stated with evidence	Matsumoto, 1915
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiomastinae	stated without evidence	Wolburg, 1939
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiolepididae	stated without evidence	Berry, 1941
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiurinae	stated with evidence	Spencer and Wright, 1966
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiurida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ophiura	genus	belongs to Ophiuridae	stated with evidence	Stöhr et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (6.5%)

First Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

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)

J. -B. Lamarck. 1801. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 8:1-432

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ophiura (Aspidura) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Ophioglypha bridgerensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophioglypha paronai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophioglypha pulchra ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophioglypha utahensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Ophiura (Ophioglypha) estarensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Ophiura achatae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura astonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	199 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Ophiura bartonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura bognoriensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura carpelloides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura costata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura cretacea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophiura cunliffei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura davisi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura furiae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura graysonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Ophiura hendleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Ophiura kunradeca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura marylandica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ophiura olifex ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ophiura ophiura species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Ophiura paucilepis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Ophiotitanos serrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	31	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Ophiura sternbergica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Ophiura straini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Ophiura texana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Ophiura tinurtiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	176 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Ophiura travisana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ophiura wetherelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1801	Ophiura Lamarck
1860	Ophioglypha Lyman
1865	Ophiura Lyman
1915	Ophioglypha Clark and Twitchell p. 29
1915	Ophiura Matsumoto p. 76
1939	Ophiura Wolburg p. 24

Year	Name and Author
1941	Ophiura Berry p. 61
1957	Ophiura (Ophioglypha) Barbier et al.
1966	Ophiura Spencer and Wright p. U95
2002	Ophiura Sepkoski, Jr.
2011	Ophiura Stöhr et al. p. 115

References

Lamarck J. -B. Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux 8, 1-432

Clark W. B., Twitchell M. W. (1915) The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54, 1-341

Matsumoto H. (1915) A new classification of Ophiuroidea: with description of genera and species, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 67, 43-92

Berry C.T. (1941) Cretaceous ophiurans from Texas, Journal of Paleontology 15 1, 61-67

Barbier R., Debelmas J., et al (1957) Découverte d'Ophiuridés dans le Rhétien intraalpin de la région d'Orcières (Hautes-Alpes), Travaux du Laboratoire de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Grenoble 33, 105-111

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

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

Stöhr S., Jagt J. W. M., et al (2011) Ophiura paucilepis, a new species of brittlestar (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Pliocene of the southern North Sea Basin, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130, 113-121

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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