Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative combination: Pentasteria (Pentasteria) longispina
Full reference: H. Hess. 1968. Ein neuer Seesterne (Pentasteria longispina sp. nov.) aus den Effingerschichten des Weissensteins (Kt. Solothun). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 61:607-614
Belongs to Pentasteria (Archastropecten) according to A. S. Gale 2011
See also Gale 2011, Hess 1968, Hess 1975, Hess 1987, Kutscher 1987 and Meyer 1984
Sister taxa: Archastropecten carroni, Archastropecten carthusiae, Archastropecten clavaeformis, Archastropecten desori, Archastropecten hooperi, Archastropecten leckenbyi, Archastropecten lorioli, 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) procera
Type specimen: Holotype M 8748, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), Germany (1), Switzerland (4)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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