Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Lacertasteridae

Full reference: D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg. 1989. Two new multiarmed Paleozoic (Mississippian) asteroids (Echinodermata) and some paleobiologic implications. Journal of Paleontology 63(3):331-340

Belongs to Lacertasterias according to D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 1989

See also Blake 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 385016. Its type locality is Lacertasterias elegans type locality, Gilmore city, which is in a Kinderhookian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Gilmore City Formation of Iowa.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lacertasterias elegans type locality, Gilmore city

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