Felderophiura vanderhami

Felderophiura vanderhami, fig. 5

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ophiurina
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: Euryophiurida Ordo: Ophiurida Subordo: Ophiurina

Familia: Ophiuridae
Genus: †Felderophiura
Species: †Felderophiura vanderhami

Name

Felderophiura vanderhami Jagt, 1991

• Type horizon and locality: Berg en Terblijt, municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, southern Limburg, The Netherlands. Upper Cretaceous; Maastrichtian.
• Holotype: IST 10507. [IST: Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique at Brussels]
• Etymology: named after Raymond W. J. M. van der Ham.

Synonymy

• Felderophiura vanderhami Jagt, 1991: 200–205, pl. 1, figs. 2–3; 1998: 77, fig. 1; 2000: 18–19, pl. 6 figs. 4-6, 8-9, pl. 7 figs. 1-3, pl. 11 figs. 1-3, pl. 18 fig. 1?.

References

• Jagt, J.W.M. 1991. A new ophiuroid from the Maastrichtian type area (Late Cretaceous, SE Netherlands, NE Belgium). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, sciences de la terre. 61: 197-209. PDF Reference page. 
• Jagt, J.W.M. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeogene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeastNetherlands and northeast Belgium — Part 3: Ophiuroids; with a chapter on: Early Maastrichtianophiuroids from Rügen (northeast Germany) and Møn (Denmark) by M. Kutscher & J.W.M. Jagt . Scripta geologica, 121: 1-179. Online. Reference page.