Eoactis simplex Spencer 1914 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Euaxosida

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1914. British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1913(1):1-56

Belongs to Eoactis according to W. K. Spencer 1922

See also Bather 1915, Lewis et al. 2007, Owen 1965 and Spencer 1914

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Holotype BMNH E13154

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hafod, near Llandovery (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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