Asterias remondii Gabb 1866 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1866. Section I. Tertiary Invertebrate Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 1-38

Belongs to Asterias according to W. M. Gabb 1866

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915

Sister taxa: Asterias (Archaeasterias), Asterias arenicola, Asterias bituminosa, Asterias deslongchampsi, Asterias dubium, Asterias lincki, Asterias planci, Asterias propinqua, Asterias punctulata, Asterias ranvillensis, Asterias rubens, Asterias stellionura, Asteracanthion oolithicum

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Star Fish Point (Miocene of California)

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