Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae

Full reference: P. E. Raymond. 1921. A new fossil starfish from New England. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 36:165-170

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

See also Dean Shackleton 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966

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

Subtaxa: Macroporaster matutinus

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Type: Asterias matutina

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Macroporaster in the database

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