Asteroidea - Valvatida - Asterinidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma Asterias (Linn.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:275-290
Parent taxon: Valvatida according to D. B. Blake 1989
See also Gale 1987, Gale 2011, Gale 2020, Hess 1972, Mah and Blake 2012, Perrier 1893 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Acanthasteridae, Archasteridae, Asteriaceros, Asterodiscididae, Asteropseidae, Chaetasteridae, Ganeriidae, Geinitzaster, Goniasteridae, Goniasteroidea, Granulosina, Leptaster, Mithrodiidae, Odontasteridae, Ophidiasteridae, Oreasteridae, Poraniidae, Pycinasteridae, Sphaerasteridae, Stauranderasteridae, Tumulosina
Subtaxa: Asterininae Chaetasterina
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Pierre-Jaune, Hauterivian, St. Blaise (Cretaceous of Switzerland)