Salteraster selwyni McCoy 1874 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Alternative combination: Urasterella selwyni

Full reference: F. McCoy. 1874. Decade I. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria 1-43

Belongs to Salteraster according to R. B. Withers and R. A. Keble 1934

See also Blake and Koniecki 2020, McCoy 1874 and Schuchert 1915

Sister taxa: Salteraster acuminatus, Salteraster asperrimus, Salteraster biradialis, Salteraster coronella, Salteraster grandis, Salteraster imbricatus

Type specimen: Syntypes 12207, 12208, National Museum, Melbourne

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Salteraster selwyni in the database

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