Trichaster Agassiz 1836 (basket star)
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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
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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