†suborder Uractinina Spencer 1951 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Platyasterida

Alternative spellings: Uractinida, Urasterina

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: Platyasterida according to D. B. Blake and S. Rozhnov 2007

See also Blake 1989, Blake 2018, Blake and Guensburg 1993, Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1951 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxon: Eukrinasteridae

Subtaxa: Protarthrasteridae

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Uractinina in the database

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