Sturtzaster cygnipes Salter 1857

Stenuroidea

Alternative combination: Palaeocoma cygnipes

Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1857. On some new Palaeozoic star-fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20:321-334

Belongs to Sturtzaster according to C. Schuchert 1915

See also Salter 1857, Schöndorf 1910 and Wright 1863

Sister taxa: Stuertzaster liquidus, Stuertzaster marstoni, Stuertzaster utroquecognitus, Sturtzaster colvini, Sturtzaster mitchelli, Sturtzaster spinosissimus

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Sturtzaster cygnipes in the database

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