†Pegaster sticos Blake and Peterson 1993 (sea star)
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Asteroidea - Forcipulatida - Asteriidae
Full reference: D. B. Blake and D.S. Peterson. 1993. An unusual new asteriid (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Cretaceous of California. Journal of Paleontology 67(4):586-589
Belongs to Pegaster according to D. B. Blake and D.S. Peterson 1993
Sister taxon: Pegaster stichos
Type specimen: United-States National Museum, Holotype USNM 461303
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pegaster sticos in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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