†Baliactis devonicus Spencer 1927 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1927. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1925(7):325-388
Belongs to Baliactis according to W. K. Spencer 1927
See also Lehmann 1957 and Owen 1965
Sister taxa: Baliactis ordovicus, Baliactis scutatus, Baliactis tuberatus
Type specimen: Holotype BMNH E52348
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany (Devonian of Germany)
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