†Pentasteria gataui de Loriol 1887 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative combinations: Archastropecten gataui, Astropecten gataui
Full reference: P. de Loriol. 1887. Notes sur quelques échinodermes fossiles des environs de La Rochelle. Annales de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Charente-Maritime 23:313-332
Belongs to Pentasteria according to G. Breton 1997
See also de Loriol 1887, Hess 1955 and Valette 1929
Sister taxa: Pentasteria (Archastropecten), Pentasteria (Pentasteria), Pentasteria boisteli, Pentasteria elegans, Pentasteria liasica, Pentasteria recta, Crenaster desmoulinsi
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pentasteria gataui in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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