Edrioasteroidea - Pyrgocystidae

Full reference: C. D. Sumrall and S. Zamora. 2011. Ordovician edrioasteroids from Morocco: faunal exchanges across the Rheic Ocean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(3):425-454

Parent taxon: Pyrgocystidae according to C. D. Sumrall and S. Zamora 2011

Sister taxa: Archaepyrgus, Argodiscus, Belochthus, Epipaston, Fanulodiscus, Pyrgocystis, Streptaster

Subtaxa: Moroccopyrgus matacarros

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Type: Moroccopyrgus matacarros

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Tarhia, Lc3 (Ordovician of Morocco)

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