Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Alternative combinations: Asterias asperula, Urasterella asperula
Full reference: C. F. Roemer. 1864. Neue Asteriden und Crinoiden aus devonischem Dachschiefer von Bundenbach bei Birkenfeld. Palaeontographica 9:143-152
Belongs to Roemeraster according to F. Klinghardt 1933
See also Blake and Koniecki 2020, Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Roemer 1864, Schuchert 1915 and Stürtz 1886
Sister taxa: Urasterella biradialis, Urasterella constellata, Urasterella creswelli, Urasterella gutterfordensis, Urasterella inyoensis, Urasterella montana, Urasterella pulchella, Urasterella ruthveni, Urasterella thraivensis, Urasterella verruculosa, Protasteracanthion primus
Distribution: found only at Eschenbach-Bocksberg mine, Bundenbach (Devonian of Germany)
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