Tribulosaster Dean Shackleton 2005

Stenuroidea - Proturina - Rhopalocomidae

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: Rhopalocomidae according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005

Sister taxa: Archophiactis, Rhopalocoma

Subtaxa: Tribulosaster grayae

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Type: Tribulosaster grayae

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 5. “Starfish Bed,” small cliff above S. bank of Lady Burn River, 100 meters south of South Treave Farmhouse, Thraive Glen, Girvan (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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