Savignaster Gale 2011 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Spinulosida - Pterasteridae

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

Parent taxon: Pterasteridae according to A.S. Gale 2018

See also Gale 2011, Gale 2011 and Rousseau et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Hansaster, Longwyaster, Propteraster, Pteraster

Subtaxa: Savignaster septemtrionalis Savignaster wardi

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Type: Savignaster wardi

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

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

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