Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Alternative combinations: Palaeaster asperrima, Palaeaster asperrimus, Tetraster asperrimus, Urasterella asperrima, Urasterella asperrimus
Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1857. On some new Palaeozoic star-fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20:321-334
Belongs to Salteraster according to D. B. Blake and J. Koniecki 2020
See also Dean Shackleton 2005, Nicholson and Etheridge 1880, Owen 1965, Salter 1857, Salter 1865, Schuchert 1915, Spencer 1918, Spencer and Wright 1966, Stürtz 1886 and Wright 1863
Sister taxa: Salteraster acuminatus, Salteraster biradialis, Salteraster coronella, Salteraster grandis, Salteraster imbricatus, Salteraster selwyni
Type specimen: Holotype BGS GSM 25334
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Salteraster asperrimus in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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