Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1916. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1915(2):57-108

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

See also Owen 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1916 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Lepidactininae, Macroporaster, Medinaster, Mesopalaeaster, Mesopalaeasterinae

Subtaxa: Coccaster bulbiferus

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Type: Coccaster bulbiferus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Leintwardine starfish bed (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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