Asteroidea - Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae

Full reference: H. Hess. 1983. Ein Neuer Seestern (Testudinaster peregrinus n.g. n. sp.) aus dem mittleren Dogger des Aargauer Juras. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 76(3):919-925

Parent taxon: Sphaerasteridae according to A.S. Gale 2021

See also Hess 1983, Hess 1994 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bulbosphaeraster, Echinosphaeraster, Eosphaeraster, Pouzaster, Rugosphaeraster, Sphaeraster, Valettaster

Subtaxa: Testudinaster peregrinus

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Type: Testudinaster peregrinus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Echinoderms, Oberer Hauptrogenstein, Late Bajocian, Schinznach, Aargau (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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