Family Asteronychidae Müller and Troschel 1840 (basket star)
Ophiuroidea - Euryalida - Asteronychidae
Full reference: J. Müller and F.H. Troschel. 1840. Über die Gattungen der Ophiuren. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 6:327-330
Parent taxon: Euryalida according to T. D. O'Hara et al. 2018
See also Jagt 2000, O'Hara et al. 2017, Smith et al. 1995 and Spencer and Wright 1966
Sister taxa: Euryalidae, Gorgonocephalidae
Subtaxa: Asteronyx
Type: Asteronyx
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (3 collections), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Sweden (1)
Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences