Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae

Full reference: A.S. Gale. 2020. A new comb-star (Asteroidea, Astropectinidae) from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of China. Zootaxa 4861(1):139-144

Parent taxon: Astropectinidae according to A.S. Gale 2020

Sister taxa: Advenaster, Aldebarania, Astrocratis, Astropecten, Astropectininae, Boxaster, Coulonia, Ctenophoraster, Dipsacaster, Eokainaster, Pentasteria, Persephonaster, Plutonaster, Prothrissacanthias, Riedaster, Tethyaster

Subtaxa: Eoastropecten sechuanensis

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Type: Eoastropecten sechuanensis

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Eoastropecten in the database

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