Trichaster Agassiz 1836 (basket star)

Ophiuroidea - Euryalida - Euryalidae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1836. Prodrome d'une monographie des radiaires ou échinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel 1:168-199

Parent taxon: Euryalidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018

See also Jagt 2000, Matsumoto 1915 and Spencer and Wright 1966

Sister taxon: Euryale

Subtaxa: Trichaster ornatus

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2 collections), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), Denmark (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (3)

Total: 13 collections including 17 occurrences

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