Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Alternative combinations: Archastropecten infirmum, Astropecten infirmum

Full reference: E. Fraas. 1886. Die Asterien des Weissen Jura von Schwaben und Franken mit Untersuchungen über die Structur der Echinodermen und das Kalkgerüte der Asterien. Palaeontographica 32:227-261

Belongs to Pentasteria (Archastropecten) according to R. Enay and H. Hess 1970

See also de Loriol 1887, de Loriol 1905, Fraas 1886 and Hess 1955

Sister taxa: Archastropecten carroni, Archastropecten carthusiae, Archastropecten clavaeformis, Archastropecten desori, Archastropecten hooperi, Archastropecten leckenbyi, Archastropecten lorioli, Archastropecten mabillei, Archastropecten mandelslohi, Archastropecten obesus, Archastropecten orion, Archastropecten phillipsii, Archastropecten priscus, Archastropecten rupellensis, Archastropecten scarburgensis, Archastropecten suprajurensis, Archastropecten wilckensis, Archastropecten wittsii, Archastropecten wolterdorfi, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) cotteswoldiae, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) huxleyi, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) lithographica, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) procera

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stelleroida, Upper Kimmeridgian, Culoz, Southern French Jura , Ain (Jurassic of France)

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