Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Alternative combinations: Palaeaster wilberanus, Petraster wilberianus

Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1862. Description of new Paleozoic fossils from Illinois and Iowa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 13:128-148

Belongs to Mesopalaeaster according to C. Schuchert 1915

See also Hall 1868 and Meek and Worthen 1862

Sister taxa: Mesopalaeaster (Hemipalaeaster), Mesopalaeaster antiquus, Mesopalaeaster bellulus, Mesopalaeaster cataractensis, Mesopalaeaster clarki, Mesopalaeaster complicatus, Mesopalaeaster dubius, Mesopalaeaster finei, Mesopalaeaster granti, Mesopalaeaster intermedius, Mesopalaeaster lanceolatus, Mesopalaeaster parviusculus, Mesopalaeaster primus, Mesopalaeaster shafferi

Type specimen: unknown

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Arnheim - type Cincinnatian (Ordovician of Ohio)

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