Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Platanasteridae

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1919. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1917(4):169-196

Belongs to Platanaster according to J. Dean Shackleton 2005

See also Blake 1994, Blake 2018, Dean 1999, Owen 1965, Spencer 1919 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Holotype GSM 8238

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Harnage shale, Cound, Cressage, Shropshire (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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