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Brittle star
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:39:46

Brittle stars, serpent stars, or ophiuroids (from Latin ophiurus 'brittle star'; from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis) 'serpent' and οὐρά (ourá) 'tail'; referring...

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Callogorgia
Kamis, 2025-11-13 23:47:50

specimens of the Astrodia cf. excavata ophiuroid. In the Caribbean Sea, Callogorgia gracilis was found with ophiuroids from the genera Asteroschema and Ophiomitra...

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Water vascular system
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:31:06

fluid also contains some protein and high levels of potassium salts. Ophiuroids, the group including brittle stars and basket stars, have a somewhat different...

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Ophiurida
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:49:00

Associates, 2 ed.(2003) Smith, A. B.; Paterson, G. L. J.; Lafay, B. (1995). "Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological...

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Starfish
Senin, 2026-08-10 05:42:38

star polygon. (In common usage, these names are also often applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars.) Starfish...

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Basket star
Senin, 2026-08-03 09:58:45

exchange via their water vascular system. The basket stars are the largest ophiuroids, with Gorgonocephalus stimpsoni measuring up to 70 cm in arm length with...

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Ophiomusa
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:50:27

an Ophiuroid is its arms; the arms of an Ophiurida are longer, thinner, and distinctly separated in comparison to those of a sea star. Ophiuroids, also...

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Asterozoa
Minggu, 2026-05-10 06:31:51

stenuroids are distinguished from each other and from the extant asteroids and ophiuroids by the arrangements of a specific type of ossicle known as virgals: Somasteroids...

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Gorgonocephalidae
Jumat, 2026-01-02 18:48:53

characteristic many-branched arms. Gorgonocephalidae are the largest ophiuroids (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis can measure up to 70 cm in arm length with a...

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Ordovician
Senin, 2026-07-27 03:23:27

conodonts, and many types of molluscs and echinoderms, including the ophiuroids ("brittle stars") and the first sea stars. Nevertheless, the arthropods...

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Asteriacites
Selasa, 2024-05-21 07:55:54

trace fossil found in marine sedimentary rocks. It records the burrows of ophiuroid and asteroid sea stars on the sea floor. Asteriacites is found in European...

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Slippery dick
Minggu, 2026-06-28 20:08:12

benthic invertebrates, including crabs, small fishes, sea urchins and ophiuroids, polychaetes, and gastropods. It is a protogynous hermaphrodite. The species...

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Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae
Sabtu, 2025-06-28 09:32:43

caputmedusae". seawater.no. Retrieved 2025-06-03. "What makes a brittle star?". ophiuroids.myspecies.info. Retrieved 2025-06-03. "Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae: Medusahuvud"...

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Slate
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:28:37

Alexander; Blake, Daniel B. (April 2004). "Preservation of tube feet in an ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany and...

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Brisinga endecacnemos
Minggu, 2026-06-28 00:24:40

Upon its discovery, it was deemed to be an evolutionary link between ophiuroids and asteroids. C. Mah; M. Segonzac (2006). "Brisinga endecacnemos Asbjørnsen...

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Gorgonocephalus
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:49:52

subdivisions. They have an endoskeleton of calcified ossicles as do other ophiuroids, but in their case, it is covered by a fleshy layer of skin, giving them...

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Acadia National Park
Jumat, 2026-07-24 18:47:57

crustaceans (crabs, shrimp, lobsters, etc.), ostracodes (seed shrimp), and ophiuroids (brittle stars). Vertebrate fossils include fish and a few rare large...

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Tarpon
Minggu, 2026-06-07 09:54:17

Wildlife. 1969. Martin-Medrano, L.; Garcia-Barrera, P. (2006). "Fossil Ophiuroids of Mexico". In F. J. Vega; T. G. Nybor; M. D. C. Perrillat; M. Montellano-Ballesteros;...

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List of organisms named after works of fiction
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:33:50

a combination of óphis, Greek for serpent, a commonly used prefix in ophiuroid genus names, and Tardis, acronym for 'Time And Relative Dimension In Space'"...

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Amphipholis squamata
Minggu, 2025-08-17 09:17:55

Chenuil, A. (2004) Identification of allopatric clades in the cosmopolitan ophiuroid species complex Amphipholis squamata (Echinodermata). The end of a paradox...

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List of prehistoric brittle stars
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:44:32

all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be ophiuroids, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted...

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Echinoderm
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:54:42

The organisation of the water vascular system is somewhat different in ophiuroids, where the madreporite may be on the oral surface and the podia lack suckers...

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Ophiolamia
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:12:33

armigeri gen. et sp. n. (Mollusca, Prosobranchia) parasitic on the abyssal ophiuroid Ophiomusium armigerum. Sarsia, 66: 183-193 To World Register of Marine...

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Joel McIver
Minggu, 2026-02-08 09:26:36

(2024). "The beginning of a success story: Basalmost members of the extant ophiuroid clade from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden". European Journal of Taxonomy...

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Chionoecetes opilio
Rabu, 2025-11-05 00:34:44

predator size, with the smallest crabs feeding mainly on amphipods and ophiuroids, while the largest crabs feed mainly on annelids, crustacean decapods...

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Ophieulima
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:12:25

Sibuet M. 1981. Ophieulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia), a new genus of ophiuroid parasites. Sarsia, 66: 103-107 To World Register of Marine Species v t...

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Ophiurina
Senin, 2024-11-04 06:18:04

majority of living brittle star species. Ophiurina contain a large number of ophiuroids with characteristics ranging from skin just covering the disk, the presence...

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Astrobrachion adhaerens
Sabtu, 2025-09-06 00:03:11

the ophiuroids were classified as either euryalids or non-euryalids due to stark morphological differences. Increased study in the areas of ophiuroid and...

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Ophionereididae
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 23:05:59

Ophionereis Ophioneroides Ophiotriton Smith, A.B.; Paterson, G.L.J., Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological...

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Ophiocanops fugiens
Kamis, 2026-02-26 15:59:29

Forening I Kobenhaven (Report). Vol. 93. Hotchkiss FH (August 1977). "Ophiuroid Ophiocanops (Echinodermata) not a living fossil". Journal of Natural History...

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Ophioderma (echinoderm)
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:40:49

genus of brittle stars in the family Ophiodermatidae. Research on the Ophiuroid rubicundum species has discovered the creatures oppurtunistic behaviors...

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Nebulous wrasse
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 02:39:30

on fish eggs and benthic invertebrates, including crabs, sea urchins, ophiuroids, polychaetes, sponges and mollusks. Its coloration varies, ranging from...

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Coalbrookdale Formation
Jumat, 2026-07-17 03:44:38

Rahman, Imran A.; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J. (2021). "A Silurian ophiuroid with soft-tissue preservation". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (4): 2041–2047...

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Ophiocomella alexandri
Kamis, 2026-02-12 10:47:35

Elizabeth A. G.; Moran, Amy L. (2012). "Comparative larval energetics of an ophiuroid and an echinoid echinoderm". Invertebrate Biology. 131 (4): 345–354. doi:10...

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Commensalism
Selasa, 2026-08-11 02:39:31

JSTOR 24844596. Girard, F.; Fu, B.; Fisher, CR (2016). "Mutualistic symbiosis with ophiuroids limited the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea octocorals"...

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Chimaera
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:46:23

Antarctic oceans. The usual diet of chimaeras consists of crustaceans, ophiuroids, and molluscs. Modern species are demersal durophages, but they used to...

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Dragonet
Senin, 2026-07-27 12:22:52

During the summer, the dragonets feed primarily on ophiuroids and amphipods. In this season, ophiuroids are the most dominant in number. Finally, in the...

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Ophionereis schayeri
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:45:56

"Thermotolerance and the effects of hypercapnia on the metabolic rate of the ophiuroid Ophionereis schayeri: Inferences for survivorship in a changing ocean"...

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Ophiocomidae
Senin, 2026-05-18 21:40:03

Commons has media related to Ophiocomidae. Smith, A.B.; Paterson, G.L.J., Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological...

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Sedan (Lagerstätte)
Kamis, 2026-07-23 08:28:54

ophiuroid. Palaeocoma P. milleri An Ophiacanthida ophiuroid. Eirenura E. papillata An Ophiurida ophiuroid. Sinosura S. brodiei An Ophiurida ophiuroid...

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Miami Terrace Reef
Senin, 2026-07-20 09:58:48

sea urchins have also been observed there, including Asteroporpa sp. ophiuroids, Stylocidaris sp. urchins, Mollusca, Actiniaria, and Decapoda crustaceans...

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Muir Seamount
Senin, 2026-07-20 09:59:13

have been collected in total from Bear, Manning, and Muir seamounts. Ophiuroids and goose barnacles are the most abundant animal found on the seamount...

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Encrinasteridae
Jumat, 2025-03-28 04:16:27

p. 8. Harper, John A.; Morris, Robert W. (1978). "A New Encrinasterid Ophiuroid from the Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian) of Western Pennsylvania, and...

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List of lagerstätten
Minggu, 2026-08-09 02:02:25

Carvalho; Vega, Cristina Silveira (2022-12-01). "Preservation models of ophiuroids in epicontinental basins: Examples from a new Devonian echinoderm Lagerstätte...

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Maureen Downey
Senin, 2026-01-26 03:25:50

She also authored two comprehensive catalogs, covering echinoids and ophiuroids found in major collections throughout North America, during her 30-year...

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Palaeocoma
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:50:48

192 pp. York. Jaselli, L., 2015. The Lower Jurassic (Early Sinemurian) ophiuroid Palaeocoma milleri in the palaeontological collection of the Museo di...

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Pako Guyot
Senin, 2025-10-06 19:14:17

Pako Guyot. Corals and squat lobsters have been found on the seamount. Ophiuroids, most of which are symbiotic with corals and sponges, live on the seamount...

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East Atlantic peacock wrasse
Rabu, 2026-07-08 00:34:30

be found in the aquarium trade. Peacock wrasse feeds on sea urchins, ophiuroids, bivalves, shrimps and crabs. Spawning takes place in spring, when a seaweed...

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La Voulte-sur-Rhône
Kamis, 2026-02-26 22:08:07

Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsrück Slate. Also found at the site are ophiuroids, crustaceans, fish, and other pyritized specimens. The exceptional preservation...

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Mucronalia
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:56:04

Mollusca from Japan". These sea snails are thought to be parasitic on ophiuroids (brittle stars). Species within the genera Mucronalia include: Mucronalia...

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Subadyte pellucida
Rabu, 2025-07-30 06:54:09

Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh...

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Ophiothela mirabilis
Kamis, 2026-01-29 12:14:42

Ophiothela mirabilis is a species of ophiuroid brittle star within the family Ophiotrichidae. O. mirabilis is an epizoic species which have a non-parasitic...

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Agrio Formation
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:01:11

(2019), "Brittle stars from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia: first ophiuroid articulated remains for the Mesozoic of South America", Andean Geology...

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Pariambus typicus
Senin, 2025-03-17 13:09:52

between the caprellid Pariambus typicus Krøyer (Crustacea, Amphipoda) and ophiuroids". Hydrobiologia. 355 (1–3): 71–76. Bibcode:1997HyBio.355...71V. doi:10...

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Embiotoca lateralis
Senin, 2025-10-20 13:09:42

(such as bivalves and gastropods). They have also been observed eating ophiuroids/brittle stars, sea urchins, and fish eggs. Striped surfperch are a common...

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Gnathophiurina
Minggu, 2026-07-26 15:14:17

of Philadelphia, Vol.67, No.1 (1915) Smith, A.B.; Paterson, G.L.J. . Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological...

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Oegophiurida
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:48:44

present in other orders of the class. The skeleton is similar to other ophiuroids, except the paired right and left vertebrae are not fused, albeit set...

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Ophiohamus
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:50:17

November 2018. O'Hara, Timothy D.; Harding, Caroline (2015). "Enigmatic ophiuroids from the New Caledonian region". Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 73: 47–49...

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Ophiopetra
Jumat, 2026-02-27 09:13:40

Geologie (in German). 5: 151–177. Hess, H.; Meyer, C. A. (2008). "A new ophiuroid (Geocoma schoentalensis sp nov.) from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern...

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Amphiura
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:49:37

Amphiura velox Amphiura verrilli Amphiura verticillata Štorc, R. The ophiuroid Amphiura? plana in nearshore settings of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin...

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Smeltertown Formation
Kamis, 2025-06-05 06:45:06

Miller and Harris has been recovered from the formation, as have fossil ophiuroids (brittle stars). The formation is also the type location for the bryozoan...

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Sebastolobus macrochir
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:12:13

crustaceans such as gammarids and cumaceans changing to decapods and ophiuroids, mainly Cphiura leptoctenia, in larger fishes. Froese, Rainer; Pauly,...

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Krommaster
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:48:40

Krommaster (meaning "Krom River star") is an extinct genus of early ophiuroids (brittle stars) that lived nearly 410 million years ago in the early Devonian...

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Ophiothrix
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:50:44

amount is known about the evolutionary history of the group. Paleozoic ophiuroids bear an uncanny resemblance to the modern relatives with respect to ambulacral...

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List of organisms named after famous people (born 1950–1974)
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 17:05:21

(2024). "The beginning of a success story: basalmost members of the extant ophiuroid clade from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden". European Journal of Taxonomy...

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Amphiuridae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:24:01

Luminescence in ophiuroids (Echinodermata) does not share a common nervous control in all species, J Exp Biol. 2002 Mar;205 Hendler, G. Ophiuroid Skeleton Ontogeny...

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Funiculina quadrangularis
Minggu, 2025-09-07 12:03:19

S. (1988). "Photographic observations of the life style of a deep-sea ophiuroid Asteronyx loveni (Echinodermata)". Deep-Sea Research. 35 (12): 2029–2043...

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Calyx (anatomy)
Senin, 2026-03-30 16:39:10

with a leathery tegumen containing calcareous plates (in crinoids and ophiuroids the main part of the body where the viscera are located). Either a minor...

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Ophiocoma scolopendrina
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:12:59

E. (2006-03-15). "Tidal activity pattern and feeding behaviour of the ophiuroid Ophiocoma scolopendrina on a Kenyan reef flat". Coral Reefs. 25 (2): 213–222...

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Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 21:49:53

192 pp. York. Jaselli, L., 2015. The Lower Jurassic (Early Sinemurian) ophiuroid Palaeocoma milleri in the palaeontological collection of the Museo di...

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Olenekian
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:03:25

Paleozoic), thylacocephalans, crustaceans, nautiloids, ammonoids, coleoids, ophiuroids, crinoids, and vertebrates. Such diverse assemblages show that organisms...

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Bat ray
Senin, 2026-07-06 22:13:53

polychaetes, crabs, shrimp, Echiuran worms, sea cucumbers, gastropods, ophiuroids, and teleost fishes. Larger rays tend to feed on a wider variety of prey...

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Ophiura ophiura
Kamis, 2026-02-26 17:29:07

hours, little remained except the limbs of crustaceans and the discs of ophiuroids. The crab Pagurus bernhardus was the most likely scavenger to consume...

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Acrocnida
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:38:41

2020-04-05. Buchanan, John B. (1963). "Mucus Secretion Within the Spines of Ophiuroid Echinoderms". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 141 (2):...

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Walcott–Rust quarry
Jumat, 2025-07-25 19:18:09

one paracrinoid, one rhombiferan, two "carpoids", two asteroids, one ophiuroid, and one edrioasteroid. Walcott–Rust Quarry is the single richest and...

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Ophiocomina nigra
Sabtu, 2025-08-16 04:40:41

Retrieved 2011-08-31. Fontaine, A. R. (1965). "The feeding mechanisms of the ophiuroid Ophiocomina nigra". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the...

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Photocyte
Jumat, 2026-03-20 03:01:59

during bioluminescence production in dissociated photocytes from the ophiuroid Amphipholis squamata (Echinodermata)". Cell and Tissue Research. 299 (1):...

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Moltrasio Formation
Senin, 2026-05-25 22:53:31

October 2023. Jaselli, L. (2015). "The Lower Jurassic (Early Sinemurian) ophiuroid Palaeocoma milleri in the palaeontological collection of the Museo di...

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Amphipholis
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:49:35

Vol. 152, No. 1 (Feb., 1977) Dewael Y, Mallefet J., Luminescence in ophiuroids (Echinodermata) does not share a common nervous control in all species...

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List of organisms named after famous people (born 1975–present)
Rabu, 2026-07-22 15:31:43

Numberger-Thuy, L.D.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2018). "An unusual assemblage of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the late Maastrichtian of South Carolina, USA". Swiss...

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Humpback red snapper
Senin, 2026-07-06 16:36:18

as shrimps, crabs, lobsters, stomatopods, cephalopods, echinoderms and ophiuroids. Off East Africa most spawning takes place during the spring and summer...

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Hunsrück Slate
Selasa, 2026-05-19 04:12:49

paleozoicus Stürtz, 1886 (8.5 centimeters long), a fossil brittle star (ophiuroid) from the Hunsrück Lagerstätte. All five arms are bent in the same direction...

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Geography of Iraq
Rabu, 2026-06-24 19:36:10

and 34 °C. The reef harbors several living stone corals, octocorals, ophiuroids and bivalves. There are also silica-containing demo-sponges. In the rural...

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Platanaster
Rabu, 2025-08-13 01:57:02

Ordovician asteroids (Echinodermata) with characters suggestive of early ophiuroids". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (6): 1476–1485. Bibcode:2007JPal...81.1476B...

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Ophiocantabria
Rabu, 2025-08-13 01:51:48

Samuel; García-Alcalde, Jenaro (2015-07-31). "A new Devonian asteroid-like ophiuroid from Spain". Geologica Acta. 13 (4): 335–344. doi:10.1344/GeologicaActa2015...

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Ailsa McGown Clark
Kamis, 2026-02-05 13:27:00

1969, Clark also published three reviews of others' works in Nature: 'Ophiuroids of Soviet Seas', 'Irregular Echinoids', and 'Russian Sea Urchins'. Clark...

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Bokkeveld Group
Senin, 2026-06-22 23:47:08

Rarer are fossils of trilobites, bivalves, cephalopods, gastropods, ophiuroids, hyoliths, echinoids, echinoderms, conulariids, cricoconarids, and corals...

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Sea daisy
Senin, 2026-06-22 13:12:36

since it was unclear whether they might have affinities with asteroids or ophiuroids. The former view gained acceptance, and since 2006, they have been considered...

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List of organisms named after famous people (born 1925–1949)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 17:37:47

Retrieved 21 June 2022. O'Hara, T. D.; Harding, C. (2015). "Enigmatic ophiuroids from the New Caledonian region". Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 73: 47–49...

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Hartl Formation
Jumat, 2026-04-10 02:48:00

Formation at Fossilworks.org A. Kroh. 2003. First record of gorgonocephalid ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys. Cenozoic...

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La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte)
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:37:44

Metriorhynchus, fish, decapod, mysid crustaceans, thylacocephalans, crinoids, and ophiuroids (most commonly Ophiopinna elegans) are also to be found. The in situ mortality...

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Hebrides Terrace Seamount
Senin, 2026-07-20 09:55:47

black corals, crinoids, egg cases of elasmobranchs, glass sponges and ophiuroids. The faunal communities vary depending on the depth, the substrate (bedrock...

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Macauley Island
Selasa, 2026-07-14 11:35:43

eels, gastropods, hermit crabs, hydrozoans, jellyfish, nudibranchs, ophiuroids, polychelida, porifers, sea anemones, sea pens, sea stars, soft corals...

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Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen
Senin, 2024-04-22 06:06:50

(December 1998). "Mortensen's Pacific Expedition: Re-identification of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from southern Australia". Steenstrupia. 24: 37–50. ISSN 0375-2909...

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Melusinaster
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:49:58

were used to describe the genus. The individuals described with small ophiuroids with arched, crescent-shaped arm plates, articulations in the spine made...

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Paleontology in Texas
Minggu, 2025-06-08 18:40:30

Ostracods remained common in the Tertiary seas of Texas. Segments left by ophiuroids are also common in rocks deposited in these marine environments. Other...

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Wildlife of Iraq
Rabu, 2025-10-22 19:45:06

and 34 °C. The reef harbours several living stone corals, octocorals, ophiuroids and bivalves. There are also silica-containing demosponges. Due to its...

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Ophionereis annulata
Senin, 2025-06-30 15:32:23

uses its elongate tube feet to transport food to its mouth. Unlike most Ophiuroid brittle stars, banded brittle stars locomote by taking small "steps" with...

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Stout whiting
Jumat, 2025-06-20 03:35:56

two primary components of this population's diet. Penaeids, ostracods, ophiuroid echinoderms and a variety of molluscs also make up a significant part...

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Bear Gulch Limestone
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:39:01

unnamed or undescribed species of crinoids, echinoids (sea urchins), ophiuroids (brittle stars), and asteroids (sea stars). The only moderately common...

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Sperm chemotaxis
Selasa, 2025-11-25 22:22:13

in some groups of marine invertebrates (e.g., hydromedusae and certain ophiuroids), the specificity is very high; in others (e.g., starfish), the specificity...

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Brown wrasse
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:17:20

larger and older specimens are found solitary. It feeds on sea urchins, ophiuroids, mollusks, crabs and worms. Maturity occurs after two years at lengths...

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Cadamosto Seamount
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:44:32

third is formed by coral gardens made up of scleractinians, the fourth by ophiuroids, the fifth consists of populations of sponges and octocorals and the sixth...

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Jelly-falls
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:34:06

deeper falls are dominated by smaller, slower moving scavengers such as ophiuroids and gastropods which results in longer carcasses persistence. With increased...

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Western school whiting
Rabu, 2026-06-17 01:07:32

polychaetes, copepods from the cladoceran and calanoid orders, amphipods and ophiuroid echinoderms. Other lesser taken types of food include sedentary polychaetes...

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Ostenocaris
Rabu, 2026-07-22 17:30:56

are an important or dominant component, associated with polychaetes, ophiuroids, fishes and cephalopods, within porifera (siliceous sponges) and crinoid“grasslands"...

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Mortensen's Pacific expedition 1914–1916
Sabtu, 2024-12-14 03:55:33

(December 1998). "Mortensen's Pacific Expedition: Re-identification of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from southern Australia". Steenstrupia. 24: 37–50. ISSN 0375-2909...

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Vailuluʻu
Senin, 2026-07-20 10:06:02

incoming nutrient-rich water from the ocean, while crinoids, gorgonians, ophiuroids and sponges have been found on the western rift zone of Vailuluʻu. In...

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Early Ordovician
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:56:22

increased in the Early Ordovician: new classes appeared, including asteroids, ophiuroids, crinoids and diploporitans. Various Early Ordovician echinoderms are...

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2014 in echinoderm paleontology
Senin, 2025-08-25 13:24:46

pennsylvanicus, A new Genus and Species of Pennsylvanian Eospondylid Ophiuroid (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Western Pennsylvania". Annals of Carnegie...

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Orthonectida
Senin, 2026-07-20 05:35:18

Columbella) Rhopalura ophiocomae Giard, 1877 – E North Atlantic, in ophiuroids (usually Amphipholis) Rhopalura pelseneeri Caullery & Mesnil, 1901 – E...

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2022 in paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:34:55

doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.8. S2CID 247492659. Loba, M.; Radwańska, U (2022). "Ophiuroids from the Upper Jurassic of Kuyavia and the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland,...

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2017 in paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:04:18

internal morphology of the water vascular system in a specimen of a stem-ophiuroid species Protasterina flexuosa from the Ordovician (Katian) Kope Formation...

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Shortfin spiny eel
Kamis, 2025-02-20 19:46:05

have enlarged nasal rosettes. The shortfin spiny eel feeds on bryozoans, ophiuroids, amphipods and sponges. The shortfin spiny eel spawns in June and July...

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Amphiodia occidentalis
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:35:24

"Contrasting reproductive periodicities among north-eastern Pacific ophiuroids", Echinodermata, CRC Press, doi:10.1201/9781003079224-137, ISBN 978-1-003-07922-4...

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2015 in paleontology
Senin, 2026-01-12 06:53:42

Carboniferous of Poland and its implications on Paleozoic modern-type ophiuroid systematics". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (4): 923–929. Bibcode:2015AcPaP...

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2020 in paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:33:46

S2CID 241205905. Peter A. Jell; Alex G. Cook (2020). "New Carboniferous ophiuroid from central coastal New South Wales". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal...

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Bolosoma
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:50:08

when dead, Bolosoma peduncles can provide structure for organisms like ophiuroids. Similar to many other taxa of deep-water suspension feeders, the diet...

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Tegnue
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 17:16:06

Ocnus planci and Holothuria polii, starfish (Asteroidea), brittle stars (ophiuroids) with Ophiothrix fragilis populations, which are at times very dense,...

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Ophiomastix venosa
Selasa, 2026-07-07 06:18:51

2006). "Assessment of trophic relationships between symbiotic tropical ophiuroids using C and N stable isotope analysis". Journal of the Marine Biological...

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2019 in paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:33:20

(2019). "Brittle stars from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia: first ophiuroid articulated remains for the Mesozoic of South America". Andean Geology...

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Rockall–Porcupine margin
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:17:16

encrusting sponge beds species such as sea anemones, ascidians, crinoids and ophiuroids are found. The area is also home to brittlestars: filter feeders which...

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Richard John Pentreath
Selasa, 2026-06-23 14:10:31

marine zoology. After winning a Commonwealth scholarship he did a PhD on ophiuroids (brittle stars) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, being the...

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Ophiura sarsii
Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:57:50

et. al (1994) finding that 82% of their gut contents were made up of ophiuroids, 65% of which were O. sarsii. Over 50% of adult red king crabs were also...

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Tafilocaris
Kamis, 2026-01-15 23:09:22

fragmentary material), and echinoderms (14 genera, including eocrinoids, ophiuroids, stylophorans, crinoids, edrioasteroids, and a cyclocystoid), as well...

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Eulima glabra
Rabu, 2026-05-20 03:50:36

animal is white. Eulima glabra is ectoparasitic on echinoderms, probably ophiuroids, and live sublittorally to depths of approximately 200 m. The animals...

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Agoudim Formation
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:19:24

n’Tizguienne; Assameur n’Baknou-Aferdoun’Achi IV Spines & Specimens Hemicidaridae Ophiuroids Indeterminate Boukendil area IV Complete specimens Psephechinus globosus...

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Sediment Profile Imagery
Senin, 2026-08-10 02:01:50

Kennedy (2002) demonstrated the use of time-lapse SPI for quantifying ophiuroid bioturbation. Diaz and Cutter (2001) used the same method for quantifying...

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2016 in paleontology
Jumat, 2026-04-17 07:34:16

W. Hunter; Adrian W.A. Rushton; Philip Stone (2016). "Comments on the ophiuroid family Protasteridae and description of a new genus from the Lower Devonian...

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Gorgonocephalus arcticus
Selasa, 2026-06-23 06:36:57

five arms but some have as many as 20. The basket stars are the largest ophiuroids measuring up to 27.5 inches in arm length. The branching of arms is repeated...

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Tlayúa Formation
Selasa, 2026-07-21 08:32:25

anomurans, brachyurans, crinoids, echinoids, holothuroids, stelleroids, and ophiuroids, have also been recovered from the Tlayúa Formation. The remains of several...

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Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:07:05

attempt. This specimen has several taxa associated: ammonite aptychi, two ophiuroids (Sinosura brodiei) and an articulated echinoid (Diademopsis crinifera)...

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2023 in paleontology
Jumat, 2026-07-17 03:49:49

Fujita, T. (2023). "A New Asteroid (Echinodermata, Astropectinidae) and Ophiuroid (Echinodermata, Hemieuryalidae) from the Mid-Cretaceous of Southern Japan"...

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Tagoudite Formation
Senin, 2026-04-27 22:19:17

limited to taxa such as Luehndea, Mancodinium and Mendicodinium. Rare Ophiuroid impressions can be observed. Phytoclasts, spores, pollen and Tasmanites...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Venezuela
Selasa, 2026-08-11 05:03:29

Venezolanos. Boletin de Geologia 13:77-79 T. M. Sanchez. 1983. A new Permian ophiuroid, Archaeophiomusium andinum nov sp from western Venezuela. Geobios 16:103-107...

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Horizon Guyot
Senin, 2026-07-20 10:13:37

crustaceans, hydroids, loricifera, molluscs, nematodes, nemertinea, ophiuroids, ostracods, polychaetes, sipuncula, squat lobsters, vermes and xenophyophorans...

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2013 in paleontology
Rabu, 2026-04-15 09:41:41

Comment (2013). "A remarkable example of a Late Jurassic shallow-water ophiuroid assemblage from the Swiss Jura Mountains". Swiss Journal of Geosciences...

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Somasteroidea
Selasa, 2025-09-30 02:54:07

argument in favor of monophyly and a position closer to stenuroids and ophiuroids than to asteroids has also been made. Somasteroids are "more or less petaloid...

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2024 in paleontology
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:52:09

04.005. Glass, A.; Blake, D. B.; Lefebvre, B. (2024). "An unusual new ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the Late Ordovician (early Katian) of Morocco". Comptes...

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Kemp Caldera
Minggu, 2026-07-12 20:16:31

hydrothermal vents alcyonaceans, brisingids, cnidarians, holothuroids, ophiuroids, polychaetes and shrimp live on and in the seafloor. The bivalve species...

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Anton Dohrn Seamount
Senin, 2026-07-20 21:49:51

brisingids and crinoids, glass sponges, gorgonians, holothurians, the ophiuroids Ophiactis balli and Ophiomusium lymani, the pencil urchin Cidaris cidaris...

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Sperm guidance
Senin, 2025-11-24 01:22:39

in some groups of marine invertebrates (e.g., hydromedusae and certain ophiuroids), the specificity is very high; in others (e.g., starfish), the specificity...

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2021 in paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:34:28

PMID 34457344. Thuy, B.; Maxwell, V.; Pruss, S. B. (2021). "A new phosphatized ophiuroid from the lower Triassic of Nevada and its position in the evolutionary...

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2018 in echinoderm paleontology
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:32:22

D. Numberger-Thuy; John W. M. Jagt (2018). "An unusual assemblage of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the late Maastrichtian of South Carolina, USA". Swiss...

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Aurelia limbata
Rabu, 2026-01-07 19:28:28

temperature-dependent metabolisms. A. limbata can be manipulated and ingested by ophiuroids (big group of echinoderms). Brown-banded moon jellies predate upon Larval...

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Cabrières Biota
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:31:24

Ovocarpus moncereti, the rhombiferan Macrocystella sp. and undercribed ophiuroids and eocrinoids. The lower Landeyran Formation assemblage (Cabrières Biota)...

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Johann Heinrich Linck
Minggu, 2026-01-11 01:03:25

In this he created a major systematic division of the asteroids and ophiuroids based on the presence or absence of the ambulacral groove. The genus Linckia...

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Embiotoca jacksoni
Selasa, 2025-09-30 23:44:49

gammarid amphipods and other crustaceans, but they also prey on worms, ophiuroids/brittle stars, bryozoans, small crabs, and mollusks. They have been known...

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Lycopodina hypogea
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 00:48:22

archaeocytes and bacteriocytes. Large prey such as mysids, pycnogonids, ophiuroids, or phyllodocid worms (no larger than 8 mm (0.31 in) long) is estimated...

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Duho Formation
Jumat, 2026-07-24 11:28:56

the Duho Formation include a variety of aquatic invertebrates such as ophiuroids, bivalves and mantis shrimps, numerous extant genera of plants, indeterminate...

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Ita Mai Tai
Selasa, 2025-11-11 21:24:13

cnidarians mainly as octocorals, corals, crustaceans, echinoderms including ophiuroids and crinoids, which dominate the animal community, fish, holothurians...

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List of mosasaur-bearing stratigraphic units
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:36:38

boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:1-179  R. W. Dortangs, A. S. Schulp, E. W. A. Mulder...

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