Somasteroidea - Chinianasteridae

Full reference: D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg. 1993. New Lower Ordovician stelleroids (Echinodermata) and their bearing on the origins and early history of the stelleroid echinoderms. Journal of Paleontology 67(1):103-113

Belongs to Ophioxenikos according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005

See also Blake and Guensburg 1993 and Blake and Guensburg 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: University of Illinois, Holotype UI X-4751

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Yellow Hill, Ely Springs Range ( of Nevada)

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