Ophiopetra is a genus of prehistoric brittle stars.

[1] It lived in lagoons in Solnhofen Plattenkalk Formation.

Both Ophiopetra and O. lithographica were first described by Raymond Enay and Hans Hess in 1962, who determined that the genus belonged to the order Chilophiurida Matsumoto, 1915 (later known as the infraorder Chilophiurina) and that it was related to the families Ophiodermatidae and Ophiochitonidae.

[4] Apart from O. lithographica, two further species, O. bathonica Hess, 1964 and O. oertii Hess, 1965, were formerly included in Ophiopetra; in 2013, these two species were both transferred to the new genus Eozonella Thuy, Marty & Comment, 2013.

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