Protarthraster Spencer 1918 (sea star)

Asteroidea

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: Asteroidea according to D. B. Blake 2018

See also Owen 1965, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxa: Ambuloasteroidea, Arthrasteridae, Cryptozonia, Euasteroidea, Euaxosida, Hadrosida, Hemizonida, Hunsrueckaster, Kermasida, Lepidasterella, Neopalaeasteridae, Petrasteridae, Phanerozoma, Phanerozonida, Platyasterida, Pleuraster, Proactis, Pustulosida, Schuchertiidae, Silicaster, Spinulosacea, Trichotaster, Yarravaster

Subtaxa: Protarthraster longimanus

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Type: Palaeaster longimanus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protarthraster in the database

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