Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Full reference: A. W. Hunter, B. Lefebvre, S. Régnault, P. Roussel, and R. Claverie. 2007. A mixed ophiuroid–stylophoran assemblage (Echinodermata) from the Middle Ordovician (Llandeilian) of western Brittany, France. Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 275:71-86
Belongs to Taeniaster according to A. W. Hunter et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Taeniaster elegans, Taeniaster ibericus, Taeniaster spinosus, Alepidaster granuliferus, Alepidaster flexuosus, Alepidaster miamiensis, Palaeophiomyxa grandis
Type specimen: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nantes, Holotype MHNN.P.025954b., paratype MHNN.P.025955.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Taeniaster armoricanus in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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