Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Neomorphasteridae

Alternative spelling: Neomorphasterinae

Full reference: W. K. Fisher. 1923. A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidae, a family of sea-stars. Annales and Magazine of Natural History 12(9):595-607

Parent taxon: Forcipulatida according to A. M. Clark and M.E. Downey 1992

See also Fisher 1923 and Hess 1972

Sister taxa: Asteriadina, Asteriidae, Brisingida, Heliasteridae, Labidiasteridae, Pedicellasteridae, Psammaster, Stichasteridae, Zoroasteridae

Subtaxa: Argoviaster

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Echinoderms, Oberer Hauptrogenstein, Late Bajocian, Schinznach, Aargau (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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