Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Synonym: Protaster biforis Gregory 1897
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1849. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British Organic Remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Decade 1:1-64
Belongs to Protaster according to W. K. Spencer 1934
See also Forbes 1849, Gregory 1889, Gregory 1897, Hall 1860, Hall 1868, Lewis et al. 2007, Murchison 1854, Owen 1965, Quenstedt 1876, Salter 1857, Schöndorf 1910, Schuchert 1914, Schuchert 1915, Sollas and Sollas 1912, Spencer 1925 and Wright 1863
Sister taxa: Protaster bicatenulata, Protaster groomi, Protaster piltonensis, Protaster salteri, Protaster stellifer, Protaster ubaghsi, Urosoma hirudo, Bohemura jahni, Bohemura granifer
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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