Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Alternative combinations: Astropecten lorioli, Pentasteria (Pentasteria) lorioli

Full reference: P. de Loriol and E. Pellat. 1874. Monographie paléontologique des étages supérieurs de la formation jurassique des environs de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 24:1-292

Belongs to Archastropecten according to H. Hess 1955

See also Cottreau 1931, de Loriol 1887, de Loriol and Pellat 1874, Lewis 1993 and Rigaux 1891

Sister taxa: Archastropecten carroni, Archastropecten carthusiae, Archastropecten clavaeformis, Archastropecten desori, Archastropecten hooperi, Archastropecten leckenbyi, 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) infirma, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) lithographica, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) procera

Type specimen: Holotype BMNH E 1639

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Archastropecten lorioli in the database

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