Lepidaster grayi Forbes 1850 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Lepidasteridae

Alternative combination: Lepidaster grayii

Full reference: E. Forbes. 1850. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British Organic Remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Decade 3:65

Belongs to Lepidaster according to D. B. Blake 2018

See also Blake and Guensburg 1989, Forbes 1850, Gregory 1899, Herringshaw et al. 2007, Herringshaw et al. 2007, Hotchkiss 2000, Lamont 1947, Lewis et al. 2007, Murchison 1859, Owen 1965, Salter 1873, Schuchert 1915, Spencer 1914, Spencer 1918, Spencer and Wright 1966, Stürtz 1890, Stürtz 1893, von Zittel 1879, Woodward 1869, Woodward 1874 and Wright 1863

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Holotype BNHM 40215

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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