Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Full reference: K. Brünnich-Nielsen. 1943. The Asteroids of the Senonian and Danian deposits of Danmark. Biologiske skrifter fra det Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 2(5):1-68
Belongs to Lophidiaster according to J. W. M. Jagt 2000
See also Brünnich-Nielsen 1943, Hess 1955, Rasmussen 1945, Rasmussen 1950 and Rasmussen 1972
Sister taxa: Lophidiaster concavus, Lophidiaster haunsbergensis, Lophidiaster hawkinsi, Lophidiaster inversus, Lophidiaster ornatus, Lophidiaster postornatus, Lophidiaster pygmaeus, Lophidiaster silentiensis
Type specimen: Geological Museum, Copenhagen
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Echinoderms, Geulhem, Houthem, Geulhem (Paleocene of Netherlands)
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