Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Synonyms: Bohemura Jaekel 1903, Urosoma Spencer 1930
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1849. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British Organic Remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom Decade 1:1-64
Parent taxon: Protasteridae according to D. B. Blake et al. 2016
See also Dean Shackleton 2005, Hammann and Schmincke 1986, Harper and Morris 1978, Haude and Thomas 1983, Owen 1965, Schuchert 1915, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer 1930, Spencer 1934 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Astutuaster, Budenbachia, Chattaster, Drepanaster, Eugasterella, Furcaster, Gamiroaster, Gregoriura, Hypophiura, Mastigophiura, Palaeophiura, Protasterinae, Strataster, Taeniaster, Weigeltura
Subtaxa: Bohemura granifer Bohemura jahni Protaster bicatenulata Protaster groomi Protaster piltonensis Protaster salteri Protaster sedgwickii Protaster stellifer Protaster ubaghsi Urosoma hirudo
Type: Protaster sedgwickii
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Germany (1)
• Silurian of Australia (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: New York)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario), the Czech Republic (1), France (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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