Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Alternative combinations: Archastropecten rectus, Asterias (Astropecten) recta, Astropecten rectus, Crenaster rectus, Pentasteria (Pentasteria) rectus
Synonyms: Astropecten nodotiana d'Orbigny 1850, Astropecten nodotianus d'Orbigny 1850, Crenaster nodotiana d'Orbigny 1850, Triboletia nodosa de Loriol 1908
Full reference: F. McCoy. 1848. On some new Mesozoic Radiata. Annales and Magazine of Natural History 2(2):397-420
Belongs to Pentasteria according to L. Hüne and P. Hüne 2008
See also Cottreau 1928, d'Orbigny 1850, de Loriol 1908, Dujardin and Hupé 1862, Fritel 1902, Hess 1955, McCoy 1848, Mercier 1935, Morris 1854, Phillips 1875, Pictet 1857, Quenstedt 1885, Spencer and Wright 1966, Woods 1891, Wright 1863 and Wright 1880
Sister taxa: Pentasteria (Archastropecten), Pentasteria (Pentasteria), Pentasteria boisteli, Pentasteria elegans, Pentasteria gataui, Pentasteria liasica, Crenaster desmoulinsi
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (3 collections), Switzerland (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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