Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae
Alternative combination: Petraster bellulus
Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426
Belongs to Mesopalaeaster according to C. Schuchert 1915
See also Billings 1865 and Miller 1889
Sister taxa: Mesopalaeaster (Hemipalaeaster), Mesopalaeaster antiquus, Mesopalaeaster cataractensis, Mesopalaeaster clarki, Mesopalaeaster complicatus, Mesopalaeaster dubius, Mesopalaeaster finei, Mesopalaeaster granti, Mesopalaeaster intermedius, Mesopalaeaster lanceolatus, Mesopalaeaster parviusculus, Mesopalaeaster primus, Mesopalaeaster shafferi, Mesopalaeaster wilberanus
Type specimen: Holotype 2665, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mesopalaeaster bellulus in the database
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