Oyenaster oblidus Blake and Portell 2009 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Full reference: D. B. Blake and R. W. Portell. 2009. Implications for the study of fossil Asteroidea (Echinodermata) of new genera and species from the Eocene of Florida. Journal of Paleontology 83(4):562-574

Belongs to Oyenaster according to D. B. Blake and R. W. Portell 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Holotype UF 50000a, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Dickerson Limerock mines, Haile complex, Alachua County, which is in an Eocene deep subtidal packstone in the Ocala Limestone Formation of Florida.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Dickerson Limerock mines, Haile complex, Alachua County

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