†Schondorfia fungosa Blake and Guensburg 1989 (sea star)
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Full reference: D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg. 1989. Two new multiarmed Paleozoic (Mississippian) asteroids (Echinodermata) and some paleobiologic implications. Journal of Paleontology 63(3):331-340
Belongs to Schondorfia according to D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 1989
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Field Museum of Natural History, holotype PE28983. Its type locality is Roadcut on Route 146, which is in a Pendleian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Haney Formation of Illinois.
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Roadcut on Route 146
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