†family Protarthrasteridae Spencer 1918 (sea star)
Asteroidea - Platyasterida - Protarthrasteridae
Alternative spelling: Protarthrasterinae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1918. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1916(3):109-168
Parent taxon: Uractinida according to D. B. Blake 1989
See also Owen 1965, Spencer 1918 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: none
Type: Protarthraster
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protarthrasteridae in the database