Cnemidactis Spencer 1918 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Cnemidactinidae

Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1918. A monograph of the British Palaeozoic Asterozoa. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, London 1916(3):109-168

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

See also Blake and Guensburg 1993, Blake and Rozhnov 2007, Dean Shackleton 2005, Owen 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1918 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Cnemidactis girvanensis Cnemidactis macroadambulacralatas Cnemidactis osloensis

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Type: Urasterella girvanensis

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Volkhov of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Ordovician of Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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