Phyrtosaster casteri Blake 2007 (sea star)

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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