†Lepidaster Forbes 1850 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Lepidasteridae
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1850. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British Organic Remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Decade 3:65
Parent taxon: Lepidasteridae according to D. B. Blake 2018
See also Herringshaw et al. 2007, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1918 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Lepidactis, Michiganaster
Subtaxa: Lepidaster grayi
Type: Lepidaster grayi
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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