Haccourtaster aemstelensis Jagt 2000 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Full reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 5: Asteroids. Scripta Geologica 21:377-503

Belongs to Haccourtaster according to J. W. M. Jagt 2000

Sister taxon: Haccourtaster hrbac

Type specimen: MHMM MB 1044-6/c, paratypes MHMM 1044-6/d-f

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Echinoderms, Zeven Wegen, Gulpen, Haccourt (Cretaceous of Belgium)

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