Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Benthopectinidae

Full reference: A. S. Gale. 2011. The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata). Special Papers in Palaeontology 85:1-112

Parent taxon: Benthopectinidae according to A.S. Gale and J.W.M. Jagt 2021

See also Gale 2011 and Gale 2011

Sister taxa: Benthopectininae, Cheiraster, Nearchaster, Paleobenthopectininae, Punkaster

Subtaxa: Jurapecten dhondtae Jurapecten hessi Jurapecten infrajurensis

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Type: Jurapecten hessi

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at North of the road to Fétigny, Savigna, Jura (Jurassic of France)

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