Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Full reference: H. Hess. 1960. Über die Abgrezung der Astropeciniden-Gattungen Pentasteria Valette und Archastropecten Hess. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 53(1):329-331
Parent taxon: Pentasteria according to H Hess 1972
See also Gale 2011, Gale 2011, Gale 2020, Hess 1960 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Pentasteria (Archastropecten), Pentasteria boisteli, Pentasteria elegans, Pentasteria gataui, Pentasteria liasica, Pentasteria recta, Crenaster desmoulinsi
Subtaxa: Pentasteria (Pentasteria) blakei Pentasteria (Pentasteria) kelleri Pentasteria (Pentasteria) tenuimarginata Pentasteria (Pentasteria) tithonica
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (1 collection), Switzerland (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence