Disarticulated fossil euryalid ophiuroid vertebrae from the Middle Pleistocene Miyata Formation, Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, are described. The vertebrae are assigned to the family Gorgonocephalidae on the basis of arm branching and the presence of an open oral groove along the entire arm. This is the first record of fossil euryalids from the Indo-Pacific region.
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Paleontological Research
Vol. 23 • No. 3
June 2019
Vol. 23 • No. 3
June 2019
Gorgoncephalidae
Kanagawa
Miyata Formation
Ophiuroidea
vertebra