Urasterella montana Shchurovskiy 1874 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Alternative combinations: Palaeaster montanus, Urasterella montanus

Belongs to Urasterella according to C. Schuchert 1915

See also Blake and Koniecki 2020, Owen 1965 and Schöndorf 1909

Sister taxa: Urasterella biradialis, Urasterella constellata, Urasterella creswelli, Urasterella gutterfordensis, Urasterella inyoensis, Urasterella pulchella, Urasterella ruthveni, Urasterella thraivensis, Urasterella verruculosa, Protasteracanthion primus, Roemeraster asperula

Type specimen: at the Bergakademie Berlin

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Urasterella montana in the database

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