†Advenaster inermis Hess 1955 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Full reference: H. Hess. 1955. Die fossilien Astropectiniden (Asteroidea). Neue Beobachtungen und Übersicht über die bekannten Arten. Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen, Birkhaüser Verlag, Bassel 71:1-113
Belongs to Advenaster according to H Hess 1972
See also Hess 1955, Hess 1973, Hess 1987 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: at the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Echinoderms, Oberer Hauptrogenstein, Late Bajocian, Schinznach, Aargau (Jurassic of Switzerland)
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