Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1918. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1916(3):109-168
Belongs to Urasterella according to W. K. Spencer 1918
See also Blake and Koniecki 2020 and Owen 1965
Sister taxa: Urasterella biradialis, Urasterella constellata, Urasterella creswelli, Urasterella gutterfordensis, Urasterella inyoensis, Urasterella montana, Urasterella pulchella, Urasterella ruthveni, Urasterella verruculosa, Protasteracanthion primus, Roemeraster asperula
Type specimen: Lectotype BMNH E 52435
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Locality 5. “Starfish Bed,” small cliff above S. bank of Lady Burn River, 100 meters south of South Treave Farmhouse, Thraive Glen, Girvan (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)
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