Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1913. The evolution of Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, serie B 204:99-177
Parent taxon: Astropectininae according to W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer 1913
Sister taxon: Lambertella
Subtaxa: Lophidiaster concavus Lophidiaster haunsbergensis Lophidiaster hawkinsi Lophidiaster inversus Lophidiaster ornatus Lophidiaster postornatus Lophidiaster punctatus Lophidiaster pygmaeus Lophidiaster silentiensis
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (7), Canada (1: Alberta), France (7), Germany (1), the Netherlands (3), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1)
Total: 26 collections including 27 occurrences
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