Superorder Forcipulatacea Blake 1987 (sea star)
Full reference: D. B. Blake. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Jounral of Natural History 21:481-528
Parent taxon: Neoasteroidea according to D. B. Blake et al. 2017
See also Blake 1989, Blake and Hagdorn 2003 and Villier et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Migmasteridae, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) hastingiae, Surculifera, Valvatacea
Subtaxa: Terminaster Trichasteropsida
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Belgium (1 collection), France (2), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of Germany (19), Italy (1)
Total: 26 collections including 29 occurrences