Ophiuroidea - Encrinasteridae

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

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

See also Harper and Morris 1978, Lehmann 1957, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer 1934

Sister taxa: Armathyrasterinae, Encrinaster, Encrinasterinae, Euzonosoma, Loriolaster, Mastigactis, Urozoma

Subtaxa: Cheiropteraster giganteus

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Type: Cheiropteraster giganteus

Ecology: low-level epifaunal detritivore

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

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