Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae
Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1915. Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with special reference to North American Asteroidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88:1-311
Belongs to Mesopalaeaster according to C. Schuchert 1915
Sister taxa: Mesopalaeaster (Hemipalaeaster), Mesopalaeaster antiquus, Mesopalaeaster bellulus, Mesopalaeaster cataractensis, Mesopalaeaster clarki, Mesopalaeaster complicatus, Mesopalaeaster dubius, Mesopalaeaster finei, Mesopalaeaster granti, Mesopalaeaster intermedius, Mesopalaeaster parviusculus, Mesopalaeaster primus, Mesopalaeaster shafferi, Mesopalaeaster wilberanus
Type specimen: Cotypes are in the Museum of Yale University
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Beecher's Trilobite Bed (Ordovician of New York)
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