Somasteroidea - Chinianasteridae

Full reference: D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg. 1993. New Lower Ordovician stelleroids (Echinodermata) and their bearing on the origins and early history of the stelleroid echinoderms. Journal of Paleontology 67(1):103-113

Parent taxon: Chinianasteridae according to D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg 2015

See also Blake 2013, Blake 2018, Blake and Guensburg 1993, Dean Shackleton 2005 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Chinianaster, Thoralaster, Villebrunaster

Subtaxa: Ophioxenikos langenheimi

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Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Yellow Hill, Ely Springs Range ( of Nevada)

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