Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative combinations: Astropecten rupellensis, Crenaster rupellensis
Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 2:1-428
Belongs to Archastropecten according to H. Hess 1955
See also Beltrémieux 1866, Cottreau 1935, d'Orbigny 1850, de Loriol 1887, Dujardin and Hupé 1862 and Pictet 1857
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 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 rupellensis in the database
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