Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Mesopalaeasteridae
Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1914. Fossilium Catalogus. 1: Animalia, pars 3, Stelleroidea palaeozoica. W. Junk, Berlin 1-53
Parent taxon: Mesopalaeasteridae according to D. B. Blake 2018
See also Dean Shackleton 2005, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1916 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Coccaster, Lepidactininae, Macroporaster, Medinaster, Mesopalaeasterinae
Subtaxa: Mesopalaeaster (Hemipalaeaster) Mesopalaeaster antiquus Mesopalaeaster bellulus Mesopalaeaster cataractensis Mesopalaeaster clarki Mesopalaeaster complicatus Mesopalaeaster dubius Mesopalaeaster finei Mesopalaeaster granti Mesopalaeaster intermedius Mesopalaeaster lanceolatus Mesopalaeaster parviusculus Mesopalaeaster primus Mesopalaeaster shafferi Mesopalaeaster wilberanus
Type: Palaeaster shafferi
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (17: Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
Total: 19 collections including 20 occurrences
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