Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae
Alternative combination: Astropecten propinquus
Full reference: G. Münster. 1835. Bemerkungen über einige tertiäre Meerwasser-Gebilde im nordwestlichen Deutschland, zwischen Osnabrück und Cassel. Neus Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 420-451
Belongs to Asterias according to O. von Linstow 1909
See also Dewalque 1880, Dujardin and Hupé 1862, Forbes 1848, Hess 1955, Münster 1835 and Philippi 1843
Sister taxa: Asterias (Archaeasterias), Asterias arenicola, Asterias bituminosa, Asterias deslongchampsi, Asterias dubium, Asterias lincki, Asterias planci, Asterias punctulata, Asterias ranvillensis, Asterias remondii, Asterias rubens, Asterias stellionura, Asteracanthion oolithicum
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Asterias propinqua in the database
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