Asteroidea - Zorocallida

Full reference: H. Hess. 1970. Schlangensterne und Seesterne aus dem oberen Hauterivien "Pierre jaune" von St-Blaise bei Neuchatel. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 63(3):1069-1091

Parent taxon: Zorocallida according to M. Fau and L. Villier 2023

See also Gale 2011, Hess 1970 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Terminaster, Terminasteridae, Viridisaster

Subtaxa: Protothyraster priscus

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Type: Rhopia prisca

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pierre-Jaune, Hauterivian, St. Blaise (Cretaceous of Switzerland)

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