†family Archegonasteridae Spencer 1951
Somasteroidea - Archegonasteridae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1951. Early Palaeozoic starfish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B 235(B623):87-129
Parent taxon: Somasteroida according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005
See also Blake 1989, Blake and Guensburg 2015, Owen 1965, Spencer 1951 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Archegonaster, Catervaparmaster, Chinianasteridae, Goniactinida
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Archegonasteridae in the database