Asteroidea - Hemizonida - Taeniactinidae

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1927. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1925(7):325-388

Parent taxon: Hemizonida according to D. B. Blake 1989

See also Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Spencer 1927 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Lepyriactinidae, Palaeostellidae

Subtaxa: Calyptactininae Protactininae Taeniactininae

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Type: Taeniactis

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gutterford Burn Starfish Bed, North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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