
Ophiocistioidea is a class of extinct echinoderms from the Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic. They most likely form a paraphyletic grade along sea cucumber stem lineage, although some sources still consider the question of ophiocistioid monophyly unresolved.
Ophiocistioidea is a class of extinct echinoderms from the Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic. They most likely form a paraphyletic grade along sea cucumber stem lineage, although some sources still consider the question of ophiocistioid monophyly unresolved.
==Etymology== Ophiocistioidea is named from the Greek words "ophis" (snake) and "kiste" (box).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).