Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Synonyms: Astropecten (Crenaster) d'Orbigny 1850, Crenaster d'Orbigny 1850, Triboletia de Loriol 1908
Full reference: A. Valette. 1929. Note sur quelques stellerides jurassiques du laboratoire de géologie de la faculté des sciences de Lyon. Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologique de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 16(13):1-62
Parent taxon: Astropectinidae according to H Hess 1972
See also Gale 2011, Gale 2011, Gale 2020, Hess 1955, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966, Valette 1929, Villier 2008 and von Linstow 1909
Sister taxa: Advenaster, Aldebarania, Astrocratis, Astropecten, Astropectininae, Boxaster, Coulonia, Ctenophoraster, Dipsacaster, Eoastropecten, Eokainaster, Persephonaster, Plutonaster, Prothrissacanthias, Riedaster, Tethyaster
Subtaxa: Crenaster desmoulinsi Pentasteria (Archastropecten) Pentasteria (Pentasteria) Pentasteria boisteli Pentasteria elegans Pentasteria gataui Pentasteria liasica Pentasteria recta
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (1)
• Jurassic of France (10), Germany (3), Poland (1), Switzerland (9)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
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