Lophidiaster ornatus Spencer 1913

Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Alternative combination: Astropecten ornatus

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1913. The evolution of Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, serie B 204:99-177

Belongs to Lophidiaster according to H. Hess 1955

See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943, Casey 1951, Lehner 1937, Müller 1953, Rasmussen 1945, Rasmussen 1950, Smith et al. 1988, Spencer 1913, Valette 1915 and Wright and Wright 1940

Sister taxa: Lophidiaster concavus, Lophidiaster haunsbergensis, Lophidiaster hawkinsi, Lophidiaster inversus, Lophidiaster postornatus, Lophidiaster punctatus, Lophidiaster pygmaeus, Lophidiaster silentiensis

Type specimen: holotype B 17718, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (2 collections), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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