Astrodendrum Döderlein 1911 (basket star)
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Ophiuroidea - Euryalida - Gorgonocephalidae
Full reference: L. Döderlein. 1911. Über japanische und andere Euryale. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens, Herausgegeben von Dr. F. Doflein. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-physikalische Klasse, supplement-band 2:1-123
Parent taxon: Gorgonocephalidae according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Matsumoto 1915 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Astrophyton, Gorgonocephalinae
Subtaxa: Astrodendrum pilleri
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ophiuroidea, Hartl-Lucke, Hartl Fm., Eisenstadt (Miocene of Austria)
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