†Phyrtosaster casteri Blake 2007 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Platanasteridae
Full reference: D. B. Blake. 2007. Two Late Ordovician asteroids (Echinodermata) with characters suggestive of early ophiuroids. Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1476-1485
Belongs to Phyrtosaster according to D. B. Blake 2007
See also Blake 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CMC TT5305. Its type locality is near Eastfork Lake, Clermont County, which is in a Cincinnatian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Fairview Formation of Ohio.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at near Eastfork Lake, Clermont County
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