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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