Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
Alternative combination: Stauranderaster gibbosus pyramidalis
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1913. The evolution of Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, serie B 204:99-177
Belongs to Stauranderaster according to H. W. Rasmussen 1950
See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943, Rasmussen 1979, Spencer 1913 and Villier et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Stauranderaster bispinosus, Stauranderaster boysii, Stauranderaster coronatus, Stauranderaster dorecki, Stauranderaster laevis, Stauranderaster miliaris, Stauranderaster mixtus, Stauranderaster pistilliferus, Stauranderaster polycirra, Stauranderaster sanchezi, Stauranderaster serrata, Stauranderaster speculum
Type specimen: Geological Museum of Copenhagen University
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Stauranderaster pyramidalis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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