Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Alternative combinations: Asterias mandelslohi, Astropecten mandelslohi, Crenaster mandelslohi

Full reference: E. Forbes. 1848. On the Asteriadae found fossil in British strata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London 2(2):457-482

Belongs to Archastropecten according to H. Hess 1955

See also d'Orbigny 1850, Dujardin and Hupé 1862, Forbes 1848, Pictet 1857, Quenstedt 1876 and Quenstedt 1885

Sister taxa: Archastropecten carroni, Archastropecten carthusiae, Archastropecten clavaeformis, Archastropecten desori, Archastropecten hooperi, Archastropecten leckenbyi, Archastropecten lorioli, Archastropecten mabillei, 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) longispina, Pentasteria (Archastropecten) procera

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Archastropecten mandelslohi in the database

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