Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae
Alternative combination: Coelaster americanus
Synonyms: Asterias anthonii Dana 1863, Palaeaster jamesi Dana 1863, Palasterina jamesi Dana 1863
Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 1:1-392
Belongs to Petraster according to D. B. Blake et al. 2016
See also d'Orbigny 1850, Dana 1863, Hall 1868, Meek 1873, Schuchert 1915 and Withers and Keble 1934
Sister taxa: Petraster angustior, Petraster crozonensis, Petraster kinahani, Petraster richi, Petraster rigidus, Petraster smythi, Uranaster ramseyensis
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Petraster americanus in the database
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