Asteroidea - Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae
Synonym: Tholaster Spencer 1913 [replaced name]
Full reference: J. Lambert. 1914. Echinodermes. Revue Critique de Paléozoologie 18:25-32
Parent taxon: Sphaerasteridae according to A.S. Gale 2021
See also Lambert 1914, Loba and Radwańska 2022, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer and Wright 1966 and Villier 2010
Sister taxa: Bulbosphaeraster, Echinosphaeraster, Eosphaeraster, Pouzaster, Rugosphaeraster, Sphaeraster, Testudinaster
Subtaxa: Valettaster argus Valettaster dangeardi Valettaster digitatus Valettaster granulatus Valettaster ocellatus Valettaster planus Valettaster stipes Valettaster thuyi
Type: Oreaster ocellatus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (1 collection)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (19), Germany (1), the Netherlands (3), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 31 collections including 37 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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