Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative combination: Astropecten elegans
Full reference: E. Fraas. 1886. Die Asterien des Weissen Jura von Schwaben und Franken mit Untersuchungen über die Structur der Echinodermen und das Kalkgerüte der Asterien. Palaeontographica 32:227-261
Belongs to Pentasteria according to H. Hess 1955
See also de Loriol 1887, de Loriol 1895, Fraas 1886 and Lemoine 1908
Sister taxa: Pentasteria (Archastropecten), Pentasteria (Pentasteria), Pentasteria boisteli, Pentasteria gataui, Pentasteria liasica, Pentasteria recta, Crenaster desmoulinsi
Type specimen: at the Paläontologischen Staatssamlung, München
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pentasteria elegans in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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