Hunsrueckaster Lehmann 1957 (sea star)

Asteroidea

Full reference: W.M. Lehmann. 1957. Die Asterozoen in den Dachschifern des rheinischen Unterdevons. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landeshamtes für Bodenforchung 21:1-160

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

See also Lehmann 1957, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Ambuloasteroidea, Arthrasteridae, Cryptozonia, Euasteroidea, Euaxosida, Hadrosida, Hemizonida, Kermasida, Lepidasterella, Neopalaeasteridae, Petrasteridae, Phanerozoma, Phanerozonida, Platyasterida, Pleuraster, Proactis, Protarthraster, Pustulosida, Schuchertiidae, Silicaster, Spinulosacea, Trichotaster, Yarravaster

Subtaxa: Hunsrueckaster peregrinus

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Type: Hunsrueckaster peregrinus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany (Devonian of Germany)

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