Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
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 Stauranderaster according to H. W. Rasmussen 1950
See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 and Rasmussen 1979
Sister taxa: Stauranderaster bispinosus, Stauranderaster boysii, Stauranderaster coronatus, Stauranderaster dorecki, Stauranderaster laevis, Stauranderaster miliaris, Stauranderaster pistilliferus, Stauranderaster polycirra, Stauranderaster pyramidalis, Stauranderaster sanchezi, Stauranderaster serrata, Stauranderaster speculum
Type specimen: Unknown registration number, Geological Museum, Copenhagen
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Rügen Island, White Chalk (Cretaceous of Germany)
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