†Sucia Blake 1973 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Pseudarchasteridae
Full reference: D. B. Blake. 1973. Ossicle morphology of some recent asteroids and description of some West American fossil asteroids. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 104:1-59
Parent taxon: Pseudarchasteridae according to A.S. Gale 2020
See also Blake 1973 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Pseudarchaster, Skiaster
Subtaxa: Sucia suavis
Type: Sucia suavis
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sucia Island (Cretaceous of Washington)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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