†Calliasterella Schuchert 1914 (sea star)
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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
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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