Asteroidea - Valvatida - Pycinasteridae

Full reference: K. Brünnich-Nielsen. 1943. The Asteroids of the Senonian and Danian deposits of Danmark. Biologiske skrifter fra det Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 2(5):1-68

Belongs to Pycinaster according to H. W. Rasmussen 1950

See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 and Rasmussen 1979

Sister taxa: Pycinaster angustatus, Pycinaster corbaricus, Pycinaster cornutus, Pycinaster crassus, Pycinaster humilis, Pycinaster magnificus, Pycinaster mortenseni, Pycinaster rasmusseni, Pycinaster rosenkrantzii

Type specimen: Geological Museum Copenhagen

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pycinaster danicus in the database

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