Asteroidea - Ambuloasteroidea - Calliasterellidae

Full reference: C. Schuchert. 1914. Fossilium Catalogus. 1: Animalia, pars 3, Stelleroidea palaeozoica. W. Junk, Berlin 1-53

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

See also Blake and Elliott 2003, Blake and Hagdorn 2003, Kesling and Strimple 1966, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1914, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxon: Arthrasterinae

Subtaxa: Calliasterella americana Calliasterella mirus

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Type: Calliaster mirus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at LaSalle Limestone Member, Bond Fm., near Pontiac, Livingstone County, IL (Carboniferous of Illinois)

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