Urasterella inyoensis Stauffer 1930 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

Full reference: C. R. Stauffer. 1930. The Devonian of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 19(4):81-118

Belongs to Urasterella according to C. R. Stauffer 1930

Sister taxa: Urasterella biradialis, Urasterella constellata, Urasterella creswelli, Urasterella gutterfordensis, Urasterella montana, Urasterella pulchella, Urasterella ruthveni, Urasterella thraivensis, Urasterella verruculosa, Roemeraster asperula, Protasteracanthion primus

Type specimen: UCMP 33029. Its type locality is Kearsarge section, bed 10 (upper 200 ft.) of Stauffer 1930, which is in a Silurian carbonate limestone in the Vaughn Gulch Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kearsarge section, bed 10 (upper 200 ft.) of Stauffer 1930

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