Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae
Alternative combination: Palaeaster parviusculus
Full reference: E. Billings. 1860. Description of a new Palaeozoic starfish of the genus Palaeaster, from Nova Scotia. Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 5:69-70
Belongs to Mesopalaeaster according to C. Schuchert 1915
See also Billings 1860, Dawson 1868 and Hudson 1913
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 primus, Mesopalaeaster shafferi, Mesopalaeaster wilberanus
Type specimen: at the Redpath Museum of McGill University, Canada
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mesopalaeaster parviusculus in the database
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