Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae

Full reference: D. B. Blake. 1990. Hettangian Asteriidae (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) from southern Germany: taxonomy, phylogeny and life habits. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 64(1/2):103-123

Belongs to Germanasterias according to A. S. Gale 2011

See also Blake 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Holotype 18869a-b. Its type locality is Asteroidea, Göppingen, Angulata zone, which is in a Hettangian marine siltstone in Germany.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Asteroidea, Göppingen, Angulata zone

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