Protaster ubaghsi Haude and Thomas 1983 (brittle star)

Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae

Full reference: R. Haude and E. Thomas. 1983. Ophiuren (Echinodermata) des hohen Oberdevons in nördlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirge. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 57(1/2):121-142

Belongs to Protaster according to R. Haude and E. Thomas 1983

Sister taxa: Protaster bicatenulata, Protaster groomi, Protaster piltonensis, Protaster salteri, Protaster sedgwickii, Protaster stellifer, Urosoma hirudo, Bohemura granifer, Bohemura jahni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Site 3, Autobahnknoten Langenhorst, Asterozoans, which is in a Famennian marine siltstone in the Wocklum Formation of Germany

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Site 3, Autobahnknoten Langenhorst, Asterozoans

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