Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae
Alternative combinations: Palasterina ramseyensis, Petraster ramseyensis
Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52
Belongs to Uranaster according to W. K. Spencer 1918
See also Blake et al. 2016, Hicks 1873, Owen 1965 and Schuchert 1915
Sister taxa: Petraster americanus, Petraster angustior, Petraster crozonensis, Petraster kinahani, Petraster richi, Petraster rigidus, Petraster smythi
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Uranaster ramseyensis in the database
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