Somasteroidea - Chinianasteridae

Full reference: J. Dean Shackleton. 2005. Skeletal homologies, phylogeny and classification of the earliest asterozoan echinoderms. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3(1):29-114

Parent taxon: Chinianasteridae according to D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 2015

See also Blake 2013 and Dean Shackleton 2005

Sister taxa: Chinianaster, Ophioxenikos, Villebrunaster

Subtaxa: Thoralaster spiculiformis

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Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Layer F, Saint-Chinian, Montagne Noire (Ordovician of France)

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