Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1915. Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with special reference to North American Asteroidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88:1-311

Parent taxon: Mesopalaeasteridae according to W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966

See also Blake 1989, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Spencer 1916 and Withers and Keble 1934

Sister taxa: Coccaster, Lepidactininae, Macroporaster, Medinaster, Mesopalaeaster

Subtaxa: Arisaigaster

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Type: Mesopalaeaster

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Much Wenlock Limestone, Wren’s Nest, Dudley (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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