Asteroidea - Valvatida - Pycinasteridae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1907. A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Paleontographical Society Monographs 2(4):91-132
Parent taxon: Pycinasteridae according to G. Breton and D. Néraudeau 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1907 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxon: Phocidaster
Subtaxa: Pycinaster angustatus Pycinaster corbaricus Pycinaster cornutus Pycinaster crassus Pycinaster danicus Pycinaster humilis Pycinaster magnificus Pycinaster mortenseni Pycinaster rasmusseni Pycinaster rosenkrantzii
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (2 collections)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (19), Germany (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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