Chatsworthia spinosa Smith and Jell 1990

Edrioasteroidea - Isorophida

Full reference: A. B. Smith and P. A. Jell. 1990. Cambrian edrioasteroids from Australia and the origin of starfishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(2):715-778

Belongs to Chatsworthia according to A. B. Smith and P. A. Jell 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QMF 17944. Its type locality is NMVPL1597, Chatsworth homestead, which is in an Iverian marine limestone in the Chatsworth Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at NMVPL1597, Chatsworth homestead

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