Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Cnemidactinidae
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 Cnemidactis according to D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 1993
Sister taxa: Cnemidactis girvanensis, Cnemidactis osloensis
Type specimen: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Holotype MCZ 981. Its type locality is section 24, T15N R50E, Sprinkle locality HH-1, Horse Heaven Mountain, which is in a Llanvirn marine limestone in the Copenhagen Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at section 24, T15N R50E, Sprinkle locality HH-1, Horse Heaven Mountain
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