Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
Full reference: W. K. Spencer. 1913. The evolution of Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, serie B 204:99-177
Parent taxon: Valvatida according to G. Breton and D. Néraudeau 2008
See also Gale 2021, Spencer 1913, Spencer and Wright 1966, Villier 2008 and Villier 2010
Sister taxa: Acanthasteridae, Archasteridae, Asteriaceros, Asterinidae, Asterodiscididae, Asteropseidae, Chaetasteridae, Ganeriidae, Geinitzaster, Goniasteridae, Goniasteroidea, Granulosina, Leptaster, Mithrodiidae, Odontasteridae, Ophidiasteridae, Oreasteridae, Poraniidae, Pycinasteridae, Sphaerasteridae, Tumulosina
Subtaxa: Aspidaster Hadranderaster Lithaster Manfredaster Poncetaster Stauranderaster Stauraster
Type: Stauranderaster
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cuba (1 collection)
• Eocene of France (1)
• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1), United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (2)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (25), Germany (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of France (6), Germany (2), Poland (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 53 collections including 69 occurrences