Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Alternative combinations: Archastropecten boisteli, Pentaster boisteli

Full reference: A. Valette. 1929. Note sur quelques stellerides jurassiques du laboratoire de géologie de la faculté des sciences de Lyon. Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologique de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 16(13):1-62

Belongs to Pentasteria according to A. Valette 1929

See also Hess 1955 and Mercier 1935

Sister taxa: Pentasteria (Archastropecten), Pentasteria (Pentasteria), Pentasteria elegans, Pentasteria gataui, Pentasteria liasica, Pentasteria recta, Crenaster desmoulinsi

Type specimen: Holotype FSL 27445

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pentasteria boisteli in the database

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