Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Platanasteridae

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1919. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1917(4):169-196

Parent taxon: Platanasteridae according to D. B. Blake 2018

See also Blake 1994, Blake and Rozhnov 2007, Dean Shackleton 2005, Owen 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1919 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Lanthanaster, Phyrtosaster, Foliaster, Palaechinasteridae, Palasteriscinae, Palaebrisingidae

Subtaxa: Platanaster ordovicus

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Type: Platanaster ordovicus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Harnage shale, Cound, Cressage, Shropshire (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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