†Baliactis scutatus Lehmann 1957 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Palaeasteridae
Full reference: W.M. Lehmann. 1957. Die Asterozoen in den Dachschifern des rheinischen Unterdevons. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landeshamtes für Bodenforchung 21:1-160
Belongs to Baliactis according to W.M. Lehmann 1957
Sister taxa: Baliactis devonicus, Baliactis ordovicus, Baliactis tuberatus
Type specimen: Holotype GL 81, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany (Devonian of Germany)
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