Medusaster Stürtz 1890

Stenuroidea - Parophiurina - Palaeuridae

Full reference: B. Stürtz. 1890. Neuer Beitrag zur Kenntniss paläozoischer Seesterne. Palaeontographica 36:203-247

Parent taxon: Palaeuridae according to W. K. Spencer and C. W. Wright 1966

See also Lehmann 1957, Schuchert 1915 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Umerophiura

Subtaxa: Medusaster rhenanus

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Type: Medusaster rhenanus

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bundenbach - Eschenbach, Germany (Devonian of Germany)

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